Gifted Creative Children

Can be:

• High sensitivity
• Excessive amounts of energy
• Bores easily and may appear to have short attention span
• Requires emotionally stable and secure adults around him/her
• Will resist authority if not democratically orientated
• Have preferred ways of learning; particularly in reading and mathematics
• May become easily frustrated because of his/her big ideas and not having the resources or people to assist him/her in carrying these tasks to fruition
• Learns from an exploratory level and resists rote memory and just being a listener
• Cannot sit still unless absorbed in something of his/her own interest
• Very compassionate and has many fears such as death and loss of loved ones
• If they experience failure early, may give up and develop permanent learning blocks.