With regard to parental community, as your children develop their areas of interest, you may also find common ground with other parents around activities in which your children are not necessarily exceptional, but that still bring them joy. For instance, among our children's favored activities are dance and sports, at which they are no better than the high end of the average range (and I'm pretty sure that's only through my optimistic parental lens!). They participate with no expectation on our part of anything in particular beyond exercise, teamwork, healthy competition (for the ones who enjoy that sort of thing), and learning to work for something. In those fields, they are much like other children their age, and we have common experiences and conversational topics with the other parents.
