As to electronics, we have full on buffet with no limits. I so rarely see any studies that actually are design to included gifted and especially highly gifted as a part of their design in evaluating potential impacts of anything on kid's development. If they don't, I take their results with a grain of salt.
Agreed, in fact I'm not sure I've seen any really good studies of the negative affects of computer usage on kids, other than the obvious affect of not being active at that time.
We have allowed our ds to use his handheld games for connecting with other kids when other avenues appeared exhausted. Social connection via computers might be weird to some people, but it might be one of the most powerful uses of computers for gifted folks.
Just saying. (here. on the computerized forum.)
