Parenting Your Gifted Child
Parenting any child has it’s rewards and challenges. But parenting your gifted child has its own set of special considerations in addition to the norm. When parenting your gifted child these special issues usually do not emerge until your child is preschool age. Left unnoticed, problems can arise and opportunities can be missed.
The gifted child leans toward perfectionism and therefore is often demanding of both themself and those nearby. When parenting your gifted child you’ll notice that there is frequently a higher level of frustration exhibited by the child when things do not turnout exactly as they wish or plan. This is due to their need to have everything perfect. In addition to having things perfect, you will notice that your gifted child will want to accomplish things beyond their capabilities, sometimes before they’re physically able to. In other words their brain development and intelligence can be way ahead of their physical development. This makes it hard on you when you are parenting your gifted child.
Once your child is school-age, it is critical for the teachers who are working with your child to be aware of the fact that your child is gifted. Part of parenting your gift to child is taking on the challenges of working with the systems in and out of school so your child is not frustrated and so your child will be challenged and stimulated intellectually and continue through the school years to maintain interest in learning.
Technically, the intellectually gifted child has an IQ of 130 or greater. When parenting your gifted child, you will notice that she tends to be more aware, more sensitive and able to understand and solve problems with greater ease. It is important to remember that when parenting the gifted child, you must help him develop her thinking skills like any other child in the early developmental stages. Just because your child is extremely intelligent, doesn’t mean she can skip the normal developmental stages. She will just probably go through these stages at a more rapid rate. A simple way for parents to go about this process is to ask your child to open-ended questions. Do not give solutions to your child as answers, but ask another question might how you think you could do such and such? What have you got about so far? What your goals? This gives you’re gifted child an opportunity to think in creative an abstract ways. And as with almost every child, introducing the outside world experiences like story hour at the library, visits to museums outings to plays and concerts and nature walks, all will stimulate and intrigue and offer you opportunities for learning while parenting your gifted child.
Parenting your gifted child will be a constant source of amazement and fun just by watching the way he connects and reacts to the world around him. Parenting your gifted child will also take you on the rollercoster ride of your life. Parenting your gifted child is truly a gift in itself!
Random Posts
