Parenting the Intellectually Gifted Preschool Child

Abstract

Parents of gifted preschoolers play an important role in their children's cognitive, affective, and social development and motivation for achievement. While effective parenting of all children is assumed to involve responsiveness to the individual child, it is suggested that the parents of gifted preschoolers are faced with developmental characteristics unique to the gifted child. Also discussed are the difficulties that parents may experience in dealing with individuals outside the family who criticize the parents' abilities to raise their child effectively.

The Structure and Gender Differences of Self-evaluation Practical Skills

“…They may be able to conceptualize what they want to do yet fail to make allowance for their child-level skills (Freeman, 1983;Webb, 1993) such as their lack of manual dexterity (Whitmore, 1980;Kitano, 1990). Gifted children sometimes develop fears earlier than other children, and they may be too young emotionally to cope with their precocious imagination (Chamrad & Robinson, 1986). Gifted adolescents generally tend to be confident about the domain in which they are talented yet lack confidence in their physical or social skills (Tannenbaum, 1991;Sekowski, 1995).…”