Giftedness Unfolded: What Happens After Childhood Genius
Working Title
There’s a chance you didn’t even notice I haven’t posted lately. I started a blog writing hiatus on October 1, 2025. For now, here are a few new parts from the new book I hope to release in the spring of 2026. Here is the working introduction:
Giftedness Unfolded: What Happens After Childhood Genius is Volume 2 of 3 from The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up: What They Tell Us, (2023). All three books in The 5 Levels of Gifted 20 Year Study Results series take their contents from the 2023 book. Each has been updated since 2023 and now includes end-of-chapter Questions for Discussion. And Author Notes, lots of Author Notes.
The purpose of breaking The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up: What They Tell Us (2023) into three smaller volumes is that each focuses on more distinct issues for the reading audience to choose from as their needs and interests dictate. The addition of the Questions for Discussion at the end of the chapters should make the book more approachable for groups.
The main focus of this second volume in the trilogy follow-up book is about how people who are equally intelligent to each other — according to standardized intelligence tests and various early milestones — have a vast array of outcomes by the time they end their school experiences and start their careers. While the first book is about their school years and school fit — and my assessment of whether their educational setting was good for them or not — this book tells us what parents either had access to or otherwise decided to do for their gifted child’s school years. The book tells readers what the different schools and school districts offered to their gifted students. We look at how the trajectory of either good or inadequate school “fit” prior to leaving high school impacts what these gifted young people did next. And finally, we look at how earlier school fit directs or predicts what these students had access to for further education, career goals, and choices for themselves.
Here is an Author Note from chapter 1 of the three chapter new book that will still be about 250 to 300 pages.
Author Note: As I consider the vast public moral and ethical changes that have come to the fore in our current culture, I realize that readers might be confused as to why so many researchers concluded that gifted people have inborn empathy and ethical behaviors and views. There is a chance that it is true and life changed many gifted people for the worse. They are still intellectually gifted. Not everyone who becomes rich or rises to the highest echelons of power, however, are automatically highly intelligent (gifted), either. What happens during the years a child is growing up, though, can cripple their ethical and moral outcomes. And that is why I write and share what some of those things, those events and issues within and around the family, can do to a child’s social, emotional, and moral development.
Commentary helpful.
