Recap of a good convo I had today: if you're the parent of a gifted-but-otherwise-neurotypical child, you have a difficult choice to make. Your kid could blow her peers out of the water at the rote memorization game, but it's hopefully obvious what a waste it would be to play it.
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If I can't win ALL the games, am I really that good? As soon as that question even enters your mind, you've lost, and a lot of parents inadvertently put it there by insisting "...of course you can, you're gifted."
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Not that I'm in any position to give parental advice, but if asked, I'd say this for sure — make sure your kid has space to do plenty of things where success, even partial success, is unlikely. Important that they not be pushed into doing such things, but have access to them.
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