Sometimes we know that our highly gifted child is 2 standard deviations or more from the norm. Sometimes we wonder: is my child gifted or just smart?  In this episode we review a strategy to differentiate based on two books:

-Helping Gifted Children Soar (2000) by Carol Strip and Gretchen Hirsch

-A Parent's guide to gifted children, by James Webb

We will also question the validity of our need to know, how we feel about this question and how we attune our own parenting based on the answer. We will also review some practical parenting strategies based on how intensely those gifted traits manifest in our child.