Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy Inability to make up one's mind - gifted trait?

My kids went through phases like this - I don't think it was necessarily related to giftedness as I've seen other kids go through it too. With mine, I think it was more simply not being interested in the decision. I am fairly certain that most of the time I was asking my kids if they'd decided yet they had actually moved on and were thinking about something else entirely but just said "I'm thinking about it" as a standard go-to answer.

Limiting decisions is one way to deal with it - giving a child choices is a good thing, but they don't need to be given choices on a large # of things. If it's a decision your child does need to make, give them a time limit and remind them to make the decision.

Best wishes,

polarbear

ps - fwiw, my kids didn't really have choices like what's for lunch or which shoes to wear outside at 7 years old. The choices they had at that age were more along the lines of what toy to play with, what game to play, what friend they wanted to have a playdate with etc.