Name:   If you're so smart, why do you need counseling?
Author(s)
 
 
Ruf, D.
Topics
 
 
Psychological
Source
 
 
Advanced Development Journal, Gifted Development Center 1999 Vol. 8
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http://www.educationaloptions.com/need_counseling.htm
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"A reasonably clear perception of self appears to be one prerequisite to advanced emotional development. For people who are outside the norm in any significant way, as gifted people are, obtaining accurate feedback about their abilities, strengths, weaknesses, and the acceptability of their personality characteristics is difficult. "
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6/7/2005
 
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Contributed by: Parent of Young Scholar  
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"My mother told me, as an adult, that she didn't praise me [as a child] because she thought it was obvious that I was outstanding and she didn't want me to get a swelled head."

"At the core, I always felt loved, but I seldom felt that anything I did was quite good enough. My parents bent over backwards not to over-praise my accomplishments so that none of my siblings were hurt."

Many of us, as parents of profoundly gifted children, have also to come to terms with what our childhood as very gifted children meant to us then and now, and how it shaped our lives. Without this understanding of ourselves, it is very difficult to help our children. This article offers an insight, through a dissertational study, into the childhood of very gifted adults.
 
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