Surviving

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Surviving
and enjoying
The Gifted Child
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Do you recognize this child?
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Extraordinary speed in processing information.
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A need for precision in thinking and expression.
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An extraordinary degree of intellectual curiosity.
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A fascination with ideas and words.
onomatopoeia
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An unusual capacity for memory.
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A high degree of emotional sensitivity.
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Unusual and early insight into social and moral
issues.
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A need for the world to be logical and fair.
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Conviction of correctness of personal ideas and
beliefs.
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Is a perfecshunist.
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Is a purphecksionist.
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Is a perfectionyst.
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Is a perfectionist.
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Has a sense of humor.
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Can be argumentative.
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Evaluates and judges critically.
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Anything sound familiar?
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What can I do at home that will help my child?
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Play word games and ask What if?
questions. (Great for travel times and at
bedtime.)
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To foster creativity, ask for more detail,
combinations of ideas, unusual perspectives,
going beyond first ideas.
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Provide as much exposure to museums, art,
concerts, and travel experiences as is possible
for your budget and time constraints.
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Ask stimulating and thought-provoking
questions. You wont get the same answers you
get when you ask What did you do today?
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Encourage your child to follow his passions, even
if you dont share them.
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Make sure your child has free time to
daydream, invent, and create what she wants.
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Time for another Calvin.
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Personal Talent an exceptional ability to
select and attain difficult goals that fit ones
interests, abilities, values, and contexts.
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How can you help your child attain personal
talent?
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Give your child plenty of decision-making opportun
ities.
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Allow your child to solve his own problems.
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Encourage these dispositions Optimism Hope Altru
ism Resilience
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There is a fine line between helping and
doing. When you do or redo a task, assignment,
or school project for your child, what she hears
is something you wouldnt dare dream or say, You
are incompetent.
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"The truly creative mind in any field is no more
than this  A human creature born abnormally,
inhumanly sensitive.  To him...  a touch is a
blow,  a sound is a noise,  a misfortune is a
tragedy,  a joy is an ecstasy,  a friend is a
lover,  a lover is a god,  and failure is
death.  Add to this cruelly delicate organism the
overpowering necessity to create, create, create
- - - so that without the creating of music or
poetry or books or buildings or something of
meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He
must create, must pour out creation. By some
strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really
alive unless he is creating."  -Pearl Buck-