Gifted Children Grown Up: 18 years later …

or is Being Gifted a Ticket to Success? Let’s Find Out!

My Introduction to a Longitudinal Study

I recently released a Big Book about the gifted children and their families with whom I’d worked in the early 2000s. Those kids are now grown up.[i] It’s so big that I am working on turning it into three stand-alone smaller books. These smaller books will contain discussion questions and new titles that make it clear what the focus of the book is. In the meantime, I’m sharing the first book in 6 to 8 minute posts. I might slip in a few longer ones if I can’t help myself. After all, clearly I have trouble shortening things.

This book is about how background experiences and opportunities affected the different ways a specific group of 78 gifted children — those from the first book[i] — turned out as they reached adulthood. I shared many details of the subjects’ early lives and school years in the earlier 5 Levels of Gifted: School Issues and Educational Options book. That book listed how the subjects scored on multiple, often different, ability tests, what they were like in their interests, early abilities, and temperaments, and how their parents started the search for the right fit in school.

What’s the book about?