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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will take a hard-working smart child over a gifted child any day--and I have a gifted child! I know a handful of adults who are off the charts smart, but time and again the harder working person really gets more done and more accomplished. Even socially I think there is a point when you can be too smart but all the parents now just want the most gifted child there is. I have only ever met two profoundly gifted children (reading at two, reading Japanese, advanced math at three for one of them and the other went to Harvard at 14 or 15, I can't remember) and no school would take the first one because they could not accommodate her needs. Socially it's been very difficult for both of them. The first is now at a place that is tailoring a curriculum just for her. Who needs it! (Although thank goodness it exists for her.) Better to be well rounded, imo. Why all the talk about giftedness. What happened to just a bunch of smart kids and some are smarter than others?

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I agree completely that hard work, resilience and persistence are as or more important in determining life success and satisfaction.   Children who skate through school with no effort (like the kids we're talking about here) never get the chance to learn how to work hard, how to fail and try again.  For me, that's why its so important that they are adequately challenged.  It is the challenge that is teaching the important life skill, not learning how to do fractions a couple of years early.  [/quote]

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