Unfortunately labels drive us toward thinking of our children as some kind of freaks. Everything in this world exists on a continuum. Our children happen to be at one end of the intelligence continuum.
I was speaking with a school director here whose school produced a film of The True Story of Kaluaiko`olau. Kaluaiko`olau is a historical figure. He contracted Hanson's disease (leprosy) and resisted territorial government efforts to force him to go to Kalaupapa. One of the things the students learned is NOT to refer to people as lepers. They are not the disease. As it was told to me, "You don't call someone cancer."
The same can be said of GT kids. They are NOT their intelligence or IQ, but rather people with high intellectual abilitlies.
That being said, yeah I am sometimes uncertain about my parenting abilities. It was easier when they were small and they spent their days in the home and it was just us. As they grow and have to go out into the world things get more complicated.
