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[quote=Anonymous]I posted my reply to save for college. I am sure your DD bright and all that you say. But, just as a warning, here is what happened with a gifted kid in my family, not my own child, but very close kid. She was in a gifted program, everybody told her how smart she is, and she is, no doubt. She took it as a sign that if it is too hard it is impossible and developed a closed mind set, where she never made any effort and by middle school was failing and accusing teachers of being evil to her. She barely finished high school, no joke, one of those they "let" graduate. So, be careful about developing work and study habits for your child, talent and IQ will take you only so far, and I still wonder if nobody told the kid that she is all that, that maybe she would have taken school seriously. I know so many kids who are/were LD and developed work ethic to compensate and they are the ones doing good in college. Not saying at all, that this will happen to your child, just offering what I have seen happen.[/quote]

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