Hey Everybody,
I have a few questions about my sons, and possibly my daughter.
Since Josh is the oldest I'll start with him. Josh is almost 5 years old, he's CRAZY smart and my wife and I don't know what to do as far as school goes. As of right now, he reads at a third grade level, talks like a pre teen [minus the funky teenage boy voice of course] and when he gets bored he asks me to teach him more math, we stopped at division, which I think is 4th grade math? You talk to him, and not only does he use bigger words than most adults, he knows what they mean, how to use them properly and how to pronounce them. I almost had a heart attack the first time he used arrogant in a sentence. Almost my whole family is musical, so we expected that he would take an interest in music eventually. I personally learned how to play piano, guitar, drums and almost every instrument in a concert band [trombone, trumpet, flute etc etc] so we expected him to crave some musical knowledge. So far he knows a few songs on piano and is learning a LOT of guitar. Between the family [cousins] and neighborhood kids, all of his friends are older, the oldest is about 8 from the neighborhood and all of the older cousins are between 6 and 12. He's way beyond his 5 years and we're afraid that if we put him in school with kids his age he'll get bored and lose interest in learning. We've been looking for schools with advanced programs, but all we're finding are strange alternative schools. Any advice on this?
Amber just turned 3, and like Josh she is very smart. She doesn't crave knowledge quite as much as he does, but she can read and write, and does basic math. She has recently taken an interest in tinkering with the piano, I actually just taught her how to play twinkle twinkle little star today haha. People are amazed when I take Josh and Amber out on errands with me because not only do they talk a lot, their vocabularies are pretty amazing for little kids. People, mostly the grandma type will always feel the need to stop by and comment on how amazing it is that I can hold a conversation with my kids about "real" topics. Amber may not be as ... advanced? as Josh as far as learning, but she is definitely above average. We aren't too sure if she will need to be placed in advanced classes with Josh, but I guess time will tell us that.
Jeremy, the youngest as of right now, is a different story. Jeremy just turned 2 and is the quiet one. He was always a little behind on all of the milestones, and it looks like it might stay like that for a while. He has about 40% hearing loss in one of his ears, which makes it difficult for us to know if he can really hear us when we talk to him. Jeremy doesn't talk much, but we know he understands what we say to him. I guess he's more of a listener than a talker, but it makes us nervous that he doesn't talk more. Since he has some hearing loss, he has problems with some sounds, the normal kid speech for the most part, the r's [cows is now simultaneous with cars, L's are W's and so on] but we're not sure if he's going to "grow out" of those speech related things like Josh and Amber, of if it really is because of his hearing loss instead of cute little kid talk. We've been told by his doctors that he'll need to have a hearing aid, probably before he goes to school, and that he may need to be in "special" classes where the teachers will be better trained to handle students with hearing problems, and he will probably have to go through a lot of speech therapy during school. We definitely aren't "afraid" of any of this, we know we will be able to get help for him when he needs it, but being the overly concerned parents we are, we're afraid that if Josh is in advanced classes, Amber is doing extremely well in regular classes, and Jeremy is trying 100 times harder in whatever classes they put him in, that he'll have a crap self esteem.
And the new baby, well. Lets hope for the best lmao
I know it's probably too early to worry about Amber and Jeremy, but Josh will be going to school in September, so.. Advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
James
I have a few questions about my sons, and possibly my daughter.
Since Josh is the oldest I'll start with him. Josh is almost 5 years old, he's CRAZY smart and my wife and I don't know what to do as far as school goes. As of right now, he reads at a third grade level, talks like a pre teen [minus the funky teenage boy voice of course] and when he gets bored he asks me to teach him more math, we stopped at division, which I think is 4th grade math? You talk to him, and not only does he use bigger words than most adults, he knows what they mean, how to use them properly and how to pronounce them. I almost had a heart attack the first time he used arrogant in a sentence. Almost my whole family is musical, so we expected that he would take an interest in music eventually. I personally learned how to play piano, guitar, drums and almost every instrument in a concert band [trombone, trumpet, flute etc etc] so we expected him to crave some musical knowledge. So far he knows a few songs on piano and is learning a LOT of guitar. Between the family [cousins] and neighborhood kids, all of his friends are older, the oldest is about 8 from the neighborhood and all of the older cousins are between 6 and 12. He's way beyond his 5 years and we're afraid that if we put him in school with kids his age he'll get bored and lose interest in learning. We've been looking for schools with advanced programs, but all we're finding are strange alternative schools. Any advice on this?
Amber just turned 3, and like Josh she is very smart. She doesn't crave knowledge quite as much as he does, but she can read and write, and does basic math. She has recently taken an interest in tinkering with the piano, I actually just taught her how to play twinkle twinkle little star today haha. People are amazed when I take Josh and Amber out on errands with me because not only do they talk a lot, their vocabularies are pretty amazing for little kids. People, mostly the grandma type will always feel the need to stop by and comment on how amazing it is that I can hold a conversation with my kids about "real" topics. Amber may not be as ... advanced? as Josh as far as learning, but she is definitely above average. We aren't too sure if she will need to be placed in advanced classes with Josh, but I guess time will tell us that.
Jeremy, the youngest as of right now, is a different story. Jeremy just turned 2 and is the quiet one. He was always a little behind on all of the milestones, and it looks like it might stay like that for a while. He has about 40% hearing loss in one of his ears, which makes it difficult for us to know if he can really hear us when we talk to him. Jeremy doesn't talk much, but we know he understands what we say to him. I guess he's more of a listener than a talker, but it makes us nervous that he doesn't talk more. Since he has some hearing loss, he has problems with some sounds, the normal kid speech for the most part, the r's [cows is now simultaneous with cars, L's are W's and so on] but we're not sure if he's going to "grow out" of those speech related things like Josh and Amber, of if it really is because of his hearing loss instead of cute little kid talk. We've been told by his doctors that he'll need to have a hearing aid, probably before he goes to school, and that he may need to be in "special" classes where the teachers will be better trained to handle students with hearing problems, and he will probably have to go through a lot of speech therapy during school. We definitely aren't "afraid" of any of this, we know we will be able to get help for him when he needs it, but being the overly concerned parents we are, we're afraid that if Josh is in advanced classes, Amber is doing extremely well in regular classes, and Jeremy is trying 100 times harder in whatever classes they put him in, that he'll have a crap self esteem.
And the new baby, well. Lets hope for the best lmao
I know it's probably too early to worry about Amber and Jeremy, but Josh will be going to school in September, so.. Advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
James
