Why Giftedness Is Not About Being Special:

It’s More About Having Unique Needs

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

It’s only 16 minutes and 18 seconds long and is what I recommend for people to know about what giftedness is. It is also about how to tell your gifted child about giftedness in a way that helps them to understand themselves better while learning and knowing not what to say or think about it 😉.

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.

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

I cover this point and many others from the full podcast in my little book here: Keys to Successfully Parenting the Gifted Child, 2023, by Deborah Ruf. Find on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Keys-Successfully-Parenting-Gifted-Child/dp/B0C9GHSJ53