Raising Gifted Children

…or anything else that baby likes.

Rascal discovered Thomas the Engine, so naturally we indulged his fetish for Christmas. While he enjoys making Thomas and his friends go around the track, I found another use for the overpriced toy, counting.

I line up the trains and get my trusty assistant to count out the number of trains on the track. Then I add or take a few away, asking him to recount for me. While he does not quite get the concept of “add” or “subtract” he finds this tactic more interesting than typical addition and subtraction.

I think this is a good way to introduce him to mathematics, in general.

The rascal will be three soon. My goal is to introduce him to a new word each day. I’d like to see how much he retains by his birthday.

Today we reviewed some words that we had already covered:

1. cat
2. dog
3. horse
4. pig
5. zebra
6. apple

He was able to pick the words out consistently without any help from me. I gave him a little treat each time he got a group of words correct.