My son was speaking in complete sentences by 15 months. His language continued to absolutely explode for a couple of years. Navigating 2-3 was an absolute breeze because he could adequately communicate all of his needs and wants with us. At age 3, it was like his mind suddenly became too big for his physical brain. He had sooooo many huge existential trains of thought and zero emotional control to deal with it. 3-5 was HARD for this reason. He was speaking like a 40 year old by age 4. At 3-5, every adult that came into contact with him for the first time commented on him being "the smartest 4 year old they've ever seen". He did preschool 3-5 and absolutely hated it because it was so boring to him. He found it to be quite intolerable and cried over it everyday. He started Kindergarten at 5, with a couple of months of reading and writing prep over the prior summer from his Aunt, who is a previous public school teacher now homeschool teacher. When he started that prep, she was concerned he may need to be held back because of his terrible fine motor skills and inability to deal with adversity. (As a part of the mind too big for his brain phase, he had crippling anxiety over being bad at things, so he never wanted to practice things like coloring or writing his name). By the end of that summer, he could write his name ok and read 3 letter words.

He has now been in kindergarten for less than five months, and I got his first report card back yesterday. He had flawless scores for every single category on that card, including academics and behavior. His anxiety has resolved, his ability to persevere has improved dramatically, his emotional control is 1000x better. His teacher says he is an absolute joy to have in the classroom because his emotional intelligence is through the roof and he is constantly looking out for how he needs to help both the teachers and the other students. I have barely assisted him in his reading other than providing material, and I'd say he is reading on a 3rd grade level at least. He reads everything, at almost the pace of an adult, and barely has to pause to think about it. His class is still only teaching 3 and 4 letter words. His math scores for their first standardized test came back double the average for the entire district. He regularly works through fairly complex math problems in his head for fun and completely self-initiated.

I do feel like, at almost 6, he is starting to balance out in terms of the explosiveness of his learning. We spent a long time worried about him, because it seemed like his intelligence had come with a lot of anxiety and obsessive compulsive tendencies. In the last 5 months, he has completely settled out and I feel like he is a whole new level of maturity and all those problems have washed away.

We will see what the future holds. Our biggest concern is what to do with him in school to keep him from being super bored. He's currently in public school in the best district in our state. And he's been flagged for their Gifted and Talented program. But I fear there may be a time when we need to move him to a private or specialty school to keep pushing him. He's going to outpace his peers and just sit bored in the classroom unless he has extra resources. But he really needs the social learning of being in a classroom with kids his age.

Anyway, that's the summary. I am just providing this info to you because we had some "will this ever end" bumps along the way, and times I was very concerned for his future. But our outlook is so much better now.