The Hardships of Being Gifted in Culturally Diverse Populations
Spike Lee’s remark that ‘parents are the biggest dream killers’ frames the article on gifted individuals from diverse backgrounds who face family and community pressures, discrimination, and resource gaps. These forces can derail talents; educators and mental-health professionals must offer support, education, and coping strategies.
Fostering Giftedness, Literally
An educator describes fostering a gifted child and discovering how the foster-care system often misunderstands highly capable youth. Placements fail as behaviors are misinterpreted. She urges fostering, respite care, and advocacy to support invisible gifted children and recounts successfully adopting the boy into a family that understands him.
100 Words of Wisdom
Advice from parents of gifted children emphasizes loving them for who they are, setting realistic expectations, encouraging progress over perfection, allowing safe failure, fostering peer connections and communication, respecting solitary time, promoting consistency and cooperation with schools, and modeling balanced self-care.