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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]

I love this post.  This is really the heart of the matter and what will keep parents of gifted kids up at night.  The life skills that come from challenge, hard work, success, failure, and perserverance!  That is why it's important to give these kids (and all kids) a good academic sweat!  We don't want our children working 3 years above grade level simply because they can or because we want to brag about it.  We want it because the challenge is the reward and the reward is the life skills.[/quote]

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