By Chandra Moseley, Special to CNN
Editor’s note: Chandra Moseley is a working,
single mom. A resident of a Colorado city, she makes sure to expose her
daughter to small-town living through weekly trips to the Rocky
Mountains.
(CNN) – My daughter, who is 5, was identified last
year as "gifted.” Well, I honestly had never properly understood what
being "gifted" meant. I naively thought, "Oh, my baby is so advanced,
she is just so smart!”
For those of you who are truly unaware of what being gifted means, let me help you understand.
Gifted students are defined by the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) as those who demonstrate outstanding levels of aptitude or competence in one or more domains.
The part of the definition that’s missing - and what I so desperately
needed to understand - is the social and behavioral issues that may
come with giftedness.
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