Let Them be Themselves:
Seminar offers help, advice to parents raising gifted children

Doug Carroll, via a kind reader's email:

Jim Delisle tells the story of a bright little girl who went with her parents to buy a bicycle.

After the bike had been selected, the parents presented their credit card to complete the purchase.

"Don't you know the interest rate they charge on credit cards?" the girl said in a scolding tone. "If we wait until Christmas, Santa will bring it -- and it won't cost anything!"

The anecdote illustrates the challenges that can be involved in parenting a gifted child, who may be light-years ahead of the pack intellectually but all too typical in other respects.

A two-day seminar at Blue Harbor Resort and Conference Center, which concluded Friday, addressed issues specific to the development and education of gifted children and was attended by more than 300 schoolteachers, administrators, parents and students.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 7, 2008 11:11 AM
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