The thing is, when you move past a certain level of giftedness, no ONE approach is ever going to be enough on its own. You just have to trust your instincts and know that at least a few people in your life are always going to judge your parenting/decision-making as leading to anything that ever goes wrong. {sigh} ....
There really is no way to bring that radically divergent arc (as in the case of PG children) back into alignment with NT development. Asynchrony leads to permanent differences in lived experience, and it happens no matter how much you fight that reality, in our experience. If you acknowledge that, and work WITH it rather than spending a lot of energy fighting it, you can see ways to flex your options in order to meet your individual, idiosyncratic child's needs better.
In some ways, though, you have to be willing to let go of your own expectations of normalcy as a parent.
So well put. Thank you.
Sue
