I'm thinking:
The extra discipline of gifted kids (besides oe's and intensity) is that they often need more freedom to do more stuff and sooner, so, what can you do besides spend extra time teaching them extra skills, "hothousing" as it's endearingly called (they seem to use it as an insult .?.). I'd rather spend the same sixty golden minutes of every diamond hour teaching ds new things he can do rather than telling him all the things he can't do. �Train the monkeys, wind 'em up, and let 'em go. �
�I find ds behaves better when we do regular worksheets, preschool lessons a few minutes a day. �Somebody guessed it was because of the undivided attention. �Maybe it's just practice listening. �I like what MCT said about his language arts program for gifted kids, "he has a passion for The Language Arts and it shows. �He makes overexcitability look like a natural thing, which it should be."
I like this first post in this thread:�
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=255841&referrerid=27962Actually I think it's just from my attention and genuine enthusiasm.
