(an excerpt from Children Aren’t Made Of China by Wilson McCaskill)

So what does it mean to be gifted?  How does it influence a child’s life and experience? How does it shape, not only childhood but the whole lifetime?

If our end goal is to raise children with a strong sense of well-being who can form strong connections and relationships and demonstrate pro-social skills to enable them to live life well. We need to empower them to do so in a self-managing, independent way with no carrot and stick required for extrinsic motivation.