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of a broke mother  post #1 of 3 Thread Starter   I am not sure I
know/believe in the criteria for the 'gifted' child, but it is
evident that my 2 and 10 months old girl is advanced verbally
and socially. She speaks in complex sentences, makes complicated
jokes, seeks mental connections actively, is bilingual and
successfully initiates play child children as old as 11(!). In
the city we live, preschool is a competitive, expensive
nightmare. I worked my paperwork-hell ass off to find every
loophole...for instance, she qualified for scholarship through
the French government to go the the pricey bi-lingual
school...but nothing came through. I am also very down to earth
and feel that a coop would be great for us- we both need the
community. But even those have a pricetag that is high for me as
a grad student who got laid off-  in part due to the chaos with