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Name:   Perfectionism and the highly gifted child
Author(s)
 
 
Hately, S.
Topics
 
 
Perfectionism
Source
 
 
Hoagies Gifted Education Page 1999
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http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/perfectionHG.htm
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Many have asked for suggestions about how to deal with the perfectionism of the highly gifted, and also the depression. In terms of perfectionism, parents have to try to avoid putting pressure on children to be perfect - teachers and schools too ideally, although it may be very difficult to avoid perfectionism within a school environment - or any environment where parents don't have direct control.
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Last Updated
 
 
6/28/2007
 
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Contributed by: Parent of Young Scholar  
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One profoundly gifted young adult's thoughtful insights on perfectionism, how it affected him growing up, and things his parents did, and might have done, to help. Good reading for any parent of a profoundly gifted child... we (they) seem more susceptible to perfectionism than other children.
 
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