Comments on: Is Your Child Gifted? http://www.practicingparents.com/2009/10/21/is-your-child-gifted/ Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:35:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dodi http://www.practicingparents.com/2009/10/21/is-your-child-gifted/comment-page-1/#comment-956 Dodi Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:45:51 +0000 http://www.practicingparents.com/?p=2070#comment-956 Hi Terry, I like that quote (and it's not one I'd heard before). It's especially appropriate because it infers that the behaviour of a parent shouldn't change whether the child is indeed "gifted" or not. Thinking that your child is gifted inevitably leads to the question of what to do about it. The reality is, though, that good parenting technique is consistent and the same rules apply whatever the context; loving, nurturing, playing, interacting, and stimulating. Get that right, and you can't go wrong! Hi Terry, I like that quote (and it’s not one I’d heard before). It’s especially appropriate because it infers that the behaviour of a parent shouldn’t change whether the child is indeed “gifted” or not. Thinking that your child is gifted inevitably leads to the question of what to do about it. The reality is, though, that good parenting technique is consistent and the same rules apply whatever the context; loving, nurturing, playing, interacting, and stimulating. Get that right, and you can’t go wrong!

]]> By: Terry http://www.practicingparents.com/2009/10/21/is-your-child-gifted/comment-page-1/#comment-954 Terry Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:20:14 +0000 http://www.practicingparents.com/?p=2070#comment-954 Some practical tips. Here's a quotation I sometimes use to show the trouble with trying to define giftedness: "It's a rare parent who can see his or her child clearly and objectively. At a school board meeting I attended . . . the only definition of a gifted child on which everyone in the audience could agree was 'mine.'" - Jane Adams,  I'm Still Your Mother, ch. 4 (1994). TJM ~Chairman, Parent Affiliates, and Consultant, Illinois Association for Gifted Children ~Member, Illinois State Board of Education Advisory Council on the Education of Gifted and Talented Children ~Member, Chicago Area Mensa Gifted Children Committee Some practical tips. Here’s a quotation I sometimes use to show the trouble with trying to define giftedness:
“It’s a rare parent who can see his or her child clearly and objectively. At a school board meeting I attended . . . the only definition of a gifted child on which everyone in the audience could agree was ‘mine.’” – Jane Adams,  I’m Still Your Mother, ch. 4 (1994).

TJM
~Chairman, Parent Affiliates, and Consultant, Illinois Association for Gifted Children
~Member, Illinois State Board of Education Advisory Council on the Education of Gifted and Talented Children
~Member, Chicago Area Mensa Gifted Children Committee

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