How do you balance it so you are still giving the gifted child the praise they deserve without making the average child feel bad?
DS is gifted, particularly in maths where as DD is very much average, it's been ok up until now because there's a 4 year age gap but now DD is at school she is starting to notice that her brother got lots of certificates and awards and that she doesn't, it's not too much of an issue yet but I can see it becoming one as she gets older.
When my Mum was having the same problem (with 4 gifted and 3 average children) she played down the gifted children's achievements and praised the rest of us for things the gifted ones could do in their sleep, which I don't want to do as I know how much my gifted siblings resented that but at the same time I don't want to damage DD's confidence.
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Xihha · 01/05/2014 12:34
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