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Reply to "Stop telling kids they are "gifted.""
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[quote=Anonymous]I also hate the term. It's bizarrely pseudoscientific. It makes it sound as if a child is simply "gifted" or not, as if it's as simple as having blue eyes or brown. One of my favorite lines from Lake Wobegon is "smart doesn't count for much." If you wouldn't tell your child they were born uniquely specially smart, it's probably not a good idea to tell them they're gifted either. I spent four years in college with some of the most anxious, self-centered, perspectiveless "gifted" children imaginable.[/quote]
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