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Thank you all for the interesting responses.  In posting this question I was thinking more broadly of children who were 'gifted' in school whether private or public, but it is interesting to see that the specific 'gifted' label seems to apply primarily to those who attended public schools.  I was also very interested / concerned to see the posts about being unhappy in elementary school.  Personally I loved school until middle school, and had blithely assumed this was because it was easier to meet the needs of a broad range of children at those ages.  However I'm beginning to see that I probably need to give more credit to the quality of the teachers at my (private) school.

The stories of not learning to work hard, being ostracized for being smart, feeling like a failure for needing help, etc. also resonate with me.  And those are the specific areas that I hope to address as a parent - the issue for me is figuring out how best to do that.  I don't want to make my child pursue an activity that she honestly hates, but I also don't want her to just give up on activities that don't come easily, and I'm not sure how to tell when to pursue which course, since other than completing school I don't have a lot of 'must dos' for my kids.

Basically I agree with so many PPs that being 'gifted' isn't the ticket to success, and I guess that informs my parenting in the sense that I hope to instill in my children the character traits (integrity, persistence, grit, etc.) that I hope will lead to a happy, meaningful life.

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