Is my son advanced?

Question

just wondering what the average is, my son picked his head up at 2 weeks, old started holding his head up at 1 1/2 months, rolled on his back at two months, on his belly at almost 3 months. he crawled at 4 1/2 months, pulled up 5 months, walked at barely 10 months. Now that he is 15 months, he knows how to talk on the phone, he says "is that?", "dog", "stop" "yeah" and "hot". He can throw a ball back and forth, brush his hair, open and close the cd drive on the computer, sweep the floor with a toy broom, feed himself, dance in circles, color with a crayon, he can point to a nose when asked, and he's climbing all over everything. he also tries to wipe up what he spills with a paper towel or baby wipe. Is this the normal rate for an infant because he seems to be ahead of other babies his age that I have seen. He has always done things quickly.

Answer 1

My daughter is 15 months old and does all those things and says the same amount of words.  Does that mean she is advanced as well???

I think that they are both average, maybe a little above.

:-)

Answer 2

that sounds normal to me. my daughter did the same things at that age. and she's 3 now and she is learning to read and doing very well with it. it's possible to be a little ahead.

Answer 3

i would say hes a little bit above average. :-)

Answer 4

He rolled and crawled a little ahead of the norm, but his walking is in the normal range (though on the early side of the range) and his talking and pointing is pretty typical.  His cleaning and self-help skills seem to be coming along very nicely (a testament to mom emphasizing good stuff!).  :-)  

From my experience with my own four kids and all of their friends, he sounds like a bright and coordinated but fairly typical little boy.  While I don't think anything you've listed makes him "advanced" per se, you can certainly feel proud you're doing a good job with him and reassured he's developmentally on track.  Enjoy your wonderful son.

Answer 5

He sounds ahead of the game... and if he's your first that tends to be more common.  I know my first was like that - walking about 9-10months etc... and talking early.  She is still now pretty gifted athletically but the other kids are caught up in speech, language, letters, etc (she's 4).  Be proud of him, he's very smart... but don't expect others won't catch up soon.  I remember reading "what to expect in the first year," and thinking that they must have written that book for "slow" babies, and then I had my second daughter and read it again and said, "oh c**p, I guess this is the slow baby they were writing about!" hahahah!  My 2nd daughter was much more average in dev'p but is still just as athletically gifted and smart at almost 3 as her sister was...

Answer 6

late verbal skills can be a sign of high intelligence

Answer 7

I think he is very bright. I have a 2 1/2 year old cousin and she is very advanced she starts school in September. If you want you could enroll him early. Just support his likes and encourage his learning!

Answer 8

my son does all that too

Answer 9

yes he is very ahead some babies don't roll over until they are 5 months old and don't crawl until they are 8 months old. your sonson is very advanced.

Answer 10

Seems advanced to me. (:

He will grow up to be very intelligent. (=

Answer 11

does it matter??  he's healthy.

Answer 12

sounds like a genius. mayb an iq test when he gets a little older would b a good idea so u can place him in stuff that he will like becasue of his intelectual ability

Answer 13

Sounds about average to me.  High end of average, but still average.  I used to work at a daycare/preschool and most of the kids were right about there.  Some were slow starters but that did not make them dumb by any means.  Children just advance at different levels and pretty much all even out by age 3 or 4 for the most part.  

So many things play a role such as if he is an only child.  Only children do advance quicker because they spend most of their time with adults and imitate most adult behavior...such as cleaning.  He imitates you and your behavior.

Children that are read to and spoken to more pick up on language quicker, and can speak better.  Not the ones that are spoken to with baby talk...they learn that it is ok to talk like a baby.  

As far as walking, 10-13 months is average.

Feeding himself should start once he is given solid foods.  If you feed him with a spoon after a few times he will start to grab the spoon himself, then eventually he will have the motion down and be able to do it....might be messy, but it gets in there somehow  lol

Answer 14

yeah, he is a little a head of the norm :)

Answer 15

No he is not advanced.  You want "advanced"?  My oldest daughter was taking in full sentences at 14 months, not simple sentences.  She would say "I have been very good today".  Or "There are kids outside".  When we would leave my parents she would say "Leave the light on for me", because my mother always said if any of her children or their children needed a place that there would be a light on for them day or night.  She was walking without support of any kind at 10 months.  She could spell her full name (Margret, Anne__________) before she was three and could count to 100 and do simple math equations at two.  She knew her alphabet forwads as well as backwards by age two, could not only recognize different shapes but could draw them and was reading at the age of three...We had her evaulated at the age of 5 and her IQ was at 165.  She is now 11 years old and after skipping first and third grades she will be entering highschool at the end of August...now THAT is adavanced.

Answer 16

I would say he is bright but not out of the ordinary.

Answer 17

yeah i think he is alittle a head by pointing to his nose cleaning up after his self and if you mean actually coloring then that too but every thing else is pretty normal but he is deffently not a dumb kid

Answer 18

He sounds like a genius, time to teach him to read.

Answer 19

Sounds like he is growing normal to me.  My daughter is 18 months old and is the same way.  She was walking at 8-9 months.  She did alot of things advanced and my son could say sentences at 1 1/2.  Every child developes differently.  I think your son is very bright:)