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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. These responses have been extremely helpful. Thank you to all of you that responded.

So far my daughter loves school and is doing well overall but I can definitely see how she will be surprised when she finds something difficult to pick up immediately in school. She's a bit of a perfectionist and hard on herself and although she doesn't have any indication of a learning disability, we are realizing she struggles with anxiety at times. The advice to focus on growth mindset and on hard work are good ones. We still have a lot to learn about how to support her.

For those of you that had similarly gifted kids, did any of you have them skip grades? It's something her teachers have brought up on several occasions but that we dismissed. After the recent meeting with her school, we are thinking about it more seriously. [/quote]

I was a profoundly gifted kid (now a successful and happy but certainly not world-beating) adult and I did skip a grade. It was a disaster. We stuck with it for years and things really came to a head in 6th grade, which it turns out is common for kids like me.

I think skipping grades can work for some kids, but they need to be the true one in a million outliers. I wasn't one of those. I was just very good at tests, and very good at thinking quickly.  It sounds like your daughter isn't, either, if you only just realized she's gifted based on standardized tests rather than from having her learn to read at 18 months or something.

Engage her, work with her, move somewhere with a good gifted program if you need to. But please don't have her skip a grade if you want her to come out the other end of high school well-adjusted and with friends. [/quote]

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