The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, University of Connecticut. Parenting the Very Young, Gifted Child Nancy M. Robinson Guidelines Gifted children show one or more abilities ahead of their peers by at least one-fourth their age. Parenting gifted young children is labor-intensive. Some roots of high motivation and willingness to take creative risks can be found during early childhood. We have no strong evidence that special preschools, early teaching, or computer technology significantly advance the development of gifted children.
Gifted children are at least as varied as any other group of children.