Well, my oldest daughter is plenty smart but I don't know if I would call her gifted. She could definitely handle honors classes when she gets old enough.
My youngest is too young to tell yet, and I'm not pushing it.
My middle daughter I think I'd call gifted. Not genius, but gifted. She was doing addition and subtraction pre-kindergarten, reading, asking a lot of questions I wouldn't expect her to be interested in, etc. When she was in kindergarten she started asking about multiplication and division and my husband taught her how to do it. A couple months after, my mom was driving her somewhere and she asked about how fast something went, and if it was as fast as the car they were driving in (airplanes or something I think). My mom said it would go about four times as fast as they were going, which was sixty miles an hour. My daughter thought very intently for a minute and said "two hundred and thirty miles per hour?" She'd gotten it off by ten mph but she clearly understood the concept and she'd done it all in her head. Upon entering the first grade and being tested for it, she was promptly placed in the school's gifted and talented program.
A couple months ago she asked if she could do a science project for the science fair...bear in mind she's still in the first grade! She picked out a project that had to do with sound waves being turned into light waves and back again. Granted, she picked out the project from MAKE magazine and followed the instructions on how to make her device, but she also clearly grasped the basic concepts enough to base a project around it.
She consistently surprises people with the depth of her questions and with the base of her knowledge. In fact, my husband and I often have to stop and remind ourselves that she's only seven, and not hold her up to the same standards of everything (behavior wise, I mean) that we hold her eleven year old sister to- because she is NOT eleven! She's smart enough that we forget that she *is* a typical silly seven year old as well and will act like one!
I try to keep her occupied with enough to keep her challenged but I have not had time with moving and college (and now we're moving again) to be on it constantly like I was a year ago. And I don't think tests are all that reliable or valuable so I haven't done that either apart from the test to get into gifted and talented. So...not sure if that all answers your questions or meets your criteria, but there you go.
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