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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would expect that those people with clearly average children do it for status and because their children are accessories, not full human beings.

I can imagine the parent of a highly gifted child being pretty obsessed because very gifted children can have serious problems if they aren't challenged and properly supported.

Giftedness is a risk factor.  My daughter is not highly gifted, but she is at the level where she is unlikely to have cognitive peers in her class, and that's been the reality the last few years.  The other kids can't always relate, and in the past, adults responded to her verbal ability as though her emotional age were equivalent.

The result can be never feeling heard or understood, and I worry about social issues and depression.  She clearly feels much freer and happier around other kids who get her, and there are more of those in the gifted program.  Also, the lack of challenge can cause her to disengage and fall behind, and that's been a struggle.  It's sadly familiar - I spent most of my school years painfully bored and never learned to work as hard as I needed to because the material came to me quickly and apparently by osmosis.

It's not a good thing, and ultimately meant hating and resisting the whole process and just not being willing to slog anymore once I didn't have to.  I dropped out of college - a lot of gifted kids do - and didn't go back for a long time.  [/quote]

This experience mirrors mine, except I was in several pull-out programs and other gifted programs over the years (we moved a lot as a kid, some programs were better than others). His father was not identified as gifted until middle school and his learning disability was not identified until high school and he had a horrible, horrible time in school. I hope that my kid's experience in school will be better than either of our experiences.[/quote]

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