Guys what do you understand if you heard the child is giftedness or gifted children? For my own understand as any mom and dad know, conventional parenting is hard enought. Raising and nurutring a gifted child is an even more complex challenge. And these complicated human beings don’t come with instruction manuals. Gifted children are unique because they develop cognitively at a much faster rate than they do physically and mentally. Imagine an 8-year-old mind conceiving ideas his 5-year-old body cannot possibly achieve or being ware of information that the emotionally immature child cannot handle.
This is called asncrony-being out of sync internally and externally. A child is gifted, experts say, when he or she demonstrates excellence in six areas: intelletual ability, creative thinking, scientific ability, social leadership, mechanical skills, and talent in the arts. "They tend to experience life with greater intensity. Gifted children do not fit the developmental standards for their age, have more play interests and are often academically far ahead of their age peers, she adds, "the brigther the child the greater the asynchrony and potential vulnerability.
