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Families Around the World Struggle with Giftedness Issues
… and the questions people ask me are the same. Very little help is given to the families of highly intelligent children. Especially not in their early school years.
Julia Szopa from Poland interviews Deborah Ruf for her podcast about how to help gifted children and their families. Here is how this partnership began:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, at 1:19 PM Julia Krysztofiak-Szopa wrote to me in an email:
[I put my own asides and explanations in brackets; Julia didn’t do that].
Dear Deborah,
My name is Julia and I’m building a gifted advocacy group in Poland. You can see my website and podcasts here: www.dziecizdolne.pl [By the way, you can read other languages on line by highlighting any section you want and saying “translate” in whatever way the internet asks you to do].
I’m a mother of a diagnosed gifted boy, and my story is exactly what you describe in your first book about the 5 Levels of Gifted[1] 😊. Long story short, the kid is just bright, then he starts school, and it turns out he’s actually very bright. As parents, we’d expected the school would know how to handle such a kid, but it turned out the school paid attention just to his poor social skills.
