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Precocious children, with the help of their parents, relatives, teachers, and tutors, have to learn how to deal with the intellectual, emotional, and social challenges that extremely bright people struggle with on a day-to-day basis. As well, adults who are very bright need to understand how they are different from more “average” individuals. Are you wondering, “Why does understanding this issue help with high-strung children, teenagers, and adults?” Here are my answers.

1. Understanding gifted individuals’ intense questioning and almost desperate need for all kinds of challenges and attention is the most reasonable and effective way to deal with their endless interrogations. Being confrontational will not help. Avoid saying to your young child, “Information about space travel is for older people to understand.” Or, “Stop asking questions; you are wearing me out.”

For example, your 5-year-old asks, “How does a spaceship with an astronaut aboard manage to come down to earth when it leaves the moon?” Do space travelers just jump off the rocket ship?”

Do you say, “Of course not!” You say that special procedures and instruments are used when you travel so many miles away from home. I have heard........

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