Gifted and Talented Education

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Gifted and talented education for young children is sometimes difficult for parents to source. We may have tendencies as parents to believe our children are "extremely clever", but what if we get the feeling they may be "gifted"?

I have had parents contact me privately to ask how on earth they can identify whether their child is really gifted or not.

Brainy Bambino offers lots of specific details and information below to assist parents to answer their question and also give them ideas on how to foster their child's exceptional abilities.

To start with, how can parents start gifted and talented education today?

Follow these tips:

• Encourage your child's creativity as much as possible! It is natural for a young child to want dance, sing, play make- believe, tell stories and manipulate objects. While this can be tiresome at times, try not to squash enthusiasm too much by restricting noise and adventure. If it is within reason and safe, encourage their explorative instincts;
• Recognise and praise curiosity, exploration, experimentation, fantasy, questioning, testing, and the development of creative talents;
• Promote the idea with your children that there are many ways to achieve the same outcome and not always "one right way". Help them to think outside the square and try new ways;
• Encourage your child's inventive urges by going along with their flights of fantasy, show that you're amazed and interested by their idea. Never label their ideas as "silly" or "to be more realistic";
• Prepare children for new experiences, and help develop creative ways of dealing with them;
• Avoid making comparisons with other children. This can add pressure on a child to conform in a particular way. Foster creativity by encouraging individuality and self expression. Manners are important however, so these should always be encouraged;
• Find ways of changing disruptive behavior into constructive, productive behavior. This is a much more efficient method than relying on punitive conformity;
• Draw on what your child's pre-school provides imaginatively, and supplement the pre-school's efforts;
• Finally - always try to answer those enquiring and sometimes consistent questions your child asks. This is how they learn and how they can turn their gained knowledge into more creative ideas.

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