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4. Do you recognize this child?

5. Extraordinary speed in processing information.

6. A need for precision in thinking and expression.

7. An extraordinary degree of intellectual curiosity. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

8. A fascination with ideas and words.

9. An unusual capacity for memory.

10. A high degree of emotional sensitivity.

11. Unusual and early insight into social and moral issues.

12. A need for the world to be logical and fair.

13. Conviction of correctness of personal ideas and beliefs.

14. Is a perfecshunist.

15. Is a purphecksionist.

16. Is a perfectionyst.

17. #@*&**^@#!!!!!!.

18. Is a perfectionist.

19. Has a sense of humor.

20. Can be argumentative.

21. Evaluates and judges critically.

22. Anything sound familiar?

23. What can I do at home that will help my child?

24. Play word games and ask “What if?” questions. (Great for travel times and at bedtime.)

25. To foster creativity, ask for more detail, combinations of ideas, unusual perspectives, going beyond first ideas.

26. Provide as much exposure to museums, art, concerts, and travel experiences as is possible for your budget and time constraints.

27. Ask stimulating and thought-provoking questions. You won’t get the same answers you get when you ask “What did you do today?

28. Encourage your child to follow his passions, even if you don’t share them.

29. Make sure your child has free time to daydream, invent, and create what she wants.

30. Time for another Calvin.

39. Personal Talent : an exceptional ability to select and attain difficult goals that fit one’s interests, abilities, values, and contexts.

40. How can you help your child attain personal talent?

41. Give your child plenty of decision-making opportunities.

42. Allow your child to solve his own problems.

43. Encourage these dispositions: Optimism Hope Altruism Resilience

44. There is a fine line between “helping” and “doing”. When you do or redo a task, assignment, or school project for your child, what she hears is something you wouldn’t dare dream or say, “You are incompetent.”

45. "The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating." -Pearl Buck-