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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just 'cos your snowflake is a dum dum does not mean I cannot call my kid gifted specially if all objective evidence point to that conclusion. I take your point about normalizing the social interaction etc, however. [/quote]

Pretty sure that your child is fairly average. Those of us who do have children with academic abilities way beyond the norm understand this issue entirely and we avoid labels if at all possible.[/quote]

Doubt you can avoid labels.   I know a lot of prodigies in music, math and chess and these kids know they are "prodigies."  They aren't stupid.

Also, they know the value of hard work and having mental toughness:  Even prodigies need to practice/work to let their talent reach full potential and if you can't perform under pressure and collapse then you can't perform under pressure.  The ones who can't perform under pressure end up quitting no matter how talented they are.[/quote]

But I doubt the musical prodigies were given a xylophone and "row-row-row your boat" as the only thing to practice every day for 5 years, were they? Nor was the musical prodigy forced to to stick with the grade school music class only. But this is what we do to academic prodigies.

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The only true prodigies exist in math, chess and music.   Btw, many of these kids are very gifted academically - several I know skipped high school and went to college instead.   So if you have such an "academic" prodigy, you can do the same if they need that amount of challenge to thrive.  But seriously when people talk about being "gifted" they are talking about bright kids who do well in school not prodigies and no, these kids/prodigies weren't just given a xylophone in grade school - iit is pretty obvious you have a prodigy in music, chess or math when you have one because they are so far above other bright kids in terms of talent.  Amazingly so.
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^plus they have the motivation and personality to work really hard and practice because they LOVE what they do.[/quote]

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