And pressures are growing from the less affluent parents who often cannot even think of sending a gifted child to university at all.

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Parents also need to be aware of the some of the negative aspects of being a gifted child, including becoming aware of the world too quickly and not being able to interact with children of their own age.

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By now, he was a middle-aged man going on fifty, so the musically gifted child was just a sad memory.

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It's important to remember that a child can still be gifted if he or she possesses just some--not all--of the listed characteristics in the scales.

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According to Galbraith, who wrote a book called You Know Your Child Is Gifted When ... to help parents navigate the overwhelming amount of research in the field, these kids can tear through several books a week.

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