I just wanted to share an experience I had with my older child yesterday.
We were practicing his spelling words because he had a test the next day. After a mistake he said to me "It's funny because when I write a word wrong my brain can see that it is wrong but I don't know how to spell it right. It's like I'm flipping through my brain dictionary and can't find it." Now he is considered "gifted" however I keep thinking how much better off he might be if I had given him more opportunities to learn as an infant.
It made me a little sad thinking that I lost the opportunity to fill up his "dictionary" when he was littler. He's 8 now.
It made me even more determined to get all my stuff together to teach my youngest baby as much as I can.
Just thought I would share