Social & Emotional
Cornerstone
“You may encounter many defeats,
but you must not be defeated.
In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats,
so you can know who you are,
what you can rise from,
how you can still come out of it.”
-Maya Angelou
Social & Emotional
Cornerstone
The gifted child’s developing mind is not unlike the muscles of a professional athlete. With targeted exercise, the potential for growth is unparalleled.
Sounds too simple… easier said than done, right? We know all about the daunting social and emotional developmental issues that gifted children face – issues that can leave them feeling isolated and overwhelmed. You yourself are likely familiar with some of them: peer relationship struggles, anxiety, perfectionism, low self-esteem, and more.
We want to give you the tools to empower your child. Just as vitally, we also want to help empower you as a parent. Together, we’ll build your gifted child’s incredible mind and resilient spirit. It’s time to become an unstoppable force!
Inside the Social & Emotional
World of Gifted Kids
Traits & Issues
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Based on Ian Byrd’s “10 Social and Emotional Needs of the Gifted Child”
Uniquely Trained
You are uniquely suited
to train your child’s heart and mind
to embrace life’s challenges
Adversity is an inevitable part of life and the maturation process, yet some gifted children are better equipped to handle those unavoidable difficulties than others. Why is that? Is it simply an innate trait that you either have or you don’t, like having brown eyes or being tall? And even beyond that, many gifted children experience life’s stressors more intensely than their typical learning peers. Does that mean being gifted is an insidious burden for your child to carry?
These are all reasonable questions because growing up gifted presents unique challenges, but make no mistake, being gifted is a gift that can and must be actuated! Granted, it does take a tremendous amount of effort for both the parent and child to make that happen. As children age and develop, they need an environment to feel appreciated, nurtured, and protected, at school, at home, and in the community. The storms of life will come, and your child’s fight-or-flight mechanism will instinctually engage, but how we condition our gifted children to respond to these cortisol-dumps is within our grasp.
With that said, gifted children commonly struggle with different types of anxieties and over-excitabilities, which makes this slippery slope even trickier. Your child may be more easily overwhelmed by visual-auditory stimuli that floods them with sensory overload. They may have an imagination or curiosity that never stops, even despite their best efforts to turn it off at bedtime. Or they might even love moving for the sake of moving because of their psychomotor overexcitability. Gifted children are more prone to these over-excitabilities and will need help strengthening their inner resiliency to tackle those issues.
The storms of life will come,
and your child’s fight-or-flight mechanism
will instinctually engage,
but how we condition our gifted children to respond
to these cortisol-dumps is within our grasp.
Like any other great skill in life, building resiliency takes work. While pilots and astronauts use flight simulators to prepare for every possible contingency, as humans we don’t have that ability in our daily lives. The best we can do is to train ourselves in how to react while facing the small things, so our brains might have the coping skills in place to contend with life’s most seismic shifts, like moving, divorce, or the death of a pet or loved one.
The best possible place a child can build their resiliency (or growth mindset) is through their education. During the elementary years, gifted children have some incredibly exciting social-emotional opportunities:
Our objective at K5 Gifted is to empower both you and your child with the tools necessary to deftly maneuver through these developmental social-emotional hurdles. A gifted child’s brain is uniquely malleable and hungry for growth opportunities, so with targeted scientific exercises let’s craft the most resilient mental framework possible in your child… one that’s strong enough to grow and evolve across an entire lifetime!
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Social & Emotional
Growth of Gifted Kids
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We want your child to build the strongest possible framework academically, socially, and emotionally, regardless of whether they are gifted or typically developing.
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