A parent's insight into raising a gifted child

This post is from the CNN Schools of Though blog.  It is about the joys and challenges of raising a gifted child.  The post starts:

'My daughter, who is 5, was identified last year as "gifted.” Well, I honestly had never properly understood what being "gifted" meant. I naively thought, "Oh, my baby is so advanced, she is just so smart!”
 
For those of you who are truly unaware of what being gifted means, let me help you understand'.

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