Hi fellow twice-accelerated person! I love finding this out about people because I felt pretty alone at the time 😛 I agree, it was great for me academically and I did finally find “my people” in college, where there were 4 others who started at 16 and really it wasn’t a big deal.

For anyone homeschooling highly gifted kids, I want to give a shout out to the Davidson online individual classes (Explore program). My daughter took 4 of them over 2 years and they were all excellent.

For sure! We went to a seminar about this when my daughter was 4, and the great advice we got there was to see if there was a ‘cohort’ of kids with roughly similar birthdays (within a couple of months). That works for either accelerating or holding back, so your kid doesn’t stick out. My kids were on the older side, but their CA public school suggested acceleration, and now one is the youngest, but only by a few weeks. The other is at a school with a bunch of other 11yo 7th graders, so it works out just fine. I thought that was a good way to help decide too.

@Marie – hey, glad you found my work back then! A very early example of it! And yes, they are wonderful people and the Davidson Institute is a wonderful place.