S-M-R-T

A few nights ago, the husband and I were talking to the Emperor’s day-care teacher during pick-up. She commented that he’d had a good day, aside from needing to have his group spot moved to the middle of the circle so he’d stop poking his neighbors. (That would be a “my son” problem, as I am relentlessly tactile with close friends and family. I think I pet the Emperor more often than the dog.)

She also brought up that she was starting to have some difficulties keeping him in sync academically, as he’s mastered the alphabet and the numbers 1-40 way ahead of many of his classmates, and the school’s mandate is to teach to the highest levels in the classroom. She thinks he’ll be reading soon and maybe even branching into multiplication. She mentioned that we must have worked with him a lot at home, to which we replied rather sheepishly that, no, not really, we just read to him quite a bit and talk with him. I managed to blurt out something to the effect that my husband and I are both gifted, so we’re pleased to see that he’s showing all the signs, too, and that we know all about busting the bell curve.
( Commence confessional )

I would love to hear from the parents, teachers, and others out there who have some experience with this.

Missing persons report

ivorygates? synecdochic? Do you guys know what happened to kazbaby? She went deleted in the space of the last hour or so...

ETA: All better! Stupid LJ.