I have been reading the boards for a while, but this is my first post! I too have wondered why Professor Freeman would on the one hand indicate that labeling a child as gifted might harm them, and on the other, taking part in the Child Genius programme where she gushed to both parents and the children themselves about how their IQ's were off the top of the chart. She can't have it both ways.
I was dismayed at the headlines in the UK press on the findings of Freeman's new research and the publication of her book. Here's one example:
Daily Mail UK so I wrote a blogpost about it too:
Irish Gifted Education Blog

Our gifted children have enough to be dealing with everyday without having to live up to the expectations of total strangers who are secretly hoping to see them trip up!