Sunday, February 22, 2009
Brilliant or quirky?
"9+5+9=23!", shouts my seven-year-old in the car. As we all wonder what he is talking about, he shouts again,"Right there! On the lights!". It's then that I notice my digital radio tuned to 95.9 The Fish.
Okay, there's more...
While stopped at a red light, this same child starts calling out numbers excitedly. "2+2+7=11, 2+3+5=10, 2+8+9=19...". I follow his gaze to a gas station sign that reads the prices for various grades of gas: $2.27, $2.35, $2.89. He was adding the numbers!!
How about this one...
We were watching America's Got Talent on television. While the judges from the different countries were assigning their scores to the various participants, my seven-year-old was staring at his fingers and mumbling to himself. Before the final cumulative score was announced, my baby was shouting out the total score, and he was right!!!
So what am I to make of all this? This same kid that runs into walls, trips over nothing, and talks to himself is really quite brilliant yet he just doesn't seem to have a lot of common sense. I can see him as a highly acclaimed college professor somewhere important someday with a polka-dotted bow tie and a quirky personality.
On the other hand, what's wrong with that?
Okay, there's more...
While stopped at a red light, this same child starts calling out numbers excitedly. "2+2+7=11, 2+3+5=10, 2+8+9=19...". I follow his gaze to a gas station sign that reads the prices for various grades of gas: $2.27, $2.35, $2.89. He was adding the numbers!!
How about this one...
We were watching America's Got Talent on television. While the judges from the different countries were assigning their scores to the various participants, my seven-year-old was staring at his fingers and mumbling to himself. Before the final cumulative score was announced, my baby was shouting out the total score, and he was right!!!
So what am I to make of all this? This same kid that runs into walls, trips over nothing, and talks to himself is really quite brilliant yet he just doesn't seem to have a lot of common sense. I can see him as a highly acclaimed college professor somewhere important someday with a polka-dotted bow tie and a quirky personality.
On the other hand, what's wrong with that?
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