Is It Normal for a Child to Have Existential Worries?

Certain degrees (Levels) of giftedness and personality profile go along with early existentialism

This post is a snippet from a podcast interview with Deborah Ruf (me) by Julia Krysztofiak-Szopa, for Julia’s podcast — Dzieci Zdolne — which means Gifted Children.

It’s 8 minutes and 37 seconds long. Aside from the short video podcast, I’ve added links for further reading and explanation if this is a topic that interests you.

Julia lives with her family in Poland and it was such a delight to get to know her. Like me, she has lots of thoughts and ideas and she loves to talk! Me, too. While my own children have been out of the nest for more than twenty years, she still has children at home. Her questions to me are mostly related to those listeners who are still raising their gifted children. But anything about gifted children really could pertain to your own background, you gifted adults out there!

Take a look and listen. I hope my answers here are useful to both readers and listeners.

Both of my 5 Levels of Gifted Books contain descriptions of existentialism.