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fylakes it appealing is trust A numb dumb devotion w which makes the W feel nattered flattered and superior the lat nit naturally loves love this so he ws res children and dogs as well ut evolves s and gifted children do t 1 share this engaging trait with ES digs and normal chi children adren hence olves ives and gifted c hildren children are not war popular the never look a gift child mouth hes liable to bite TO beware I 1 when tho onias as babington macau 7 was a very le gifted child Y as ed ill le had hurt 0 his finger felt t e rosy little digit ow e 9 te little macau Y 1 replied pain l thank an you madam it has s so e hat abated stu conte horary john lan could read two amei foreign euate cy ast he with considerable fluen IM liea eia B was four in the mod bilth Is ralla truster berle and bob I 1 fasth have 6 quite lived up P to the ir d so loha b cent 11 ury english stand bew ork ve ondon punch and the etta of e or er A high their 1101 u or is based on he acus precocious c chatte atte rings of gifted children and the gift child of humiliated adults discipline returning turning He there has however been a considerable sid erable reaction against letting the little su and super gals express themselves with all the initial postwar post war freedom discipline is again asserting itself in its most draconian forms there is now a school of thought which one might call the neo victorian it believes that children should be seen and not heard and that like trains and troops they should be made to run on time one reactionary spokesman for this group of counter reformers is dr henry link the eminent psychologist dr link is convincing and he is highly articulate he thinks that group games and individual self abiega tion are far more valuable charac ter forming factors than the rugged childish individualism that flourished in america in the twenties and the thirties dr link and he is typical of his school of thought dislikes intra verts he believes that pampered gift kids should not be encouraged to do what they want when they want it he prefers the age old virtues and the allegedly eternal verities verifies veri ties he thinks that the gift bairn should be compelled to play extravert tennis willing or no even when the gift bairn would much prefer to go on the licentious spree of studying prehistoric natural history or submarine he believes that the little should be shoved into bridge systematically and without stint even though the Wunder kinder think bridge is pretty lowbrow and intellectually sterile spare the rod spoil the child according to the neo victori ans their opponents of course bourse label them intellectual fascists the intellectual fascists so called come back by mudslinging mud slinging the express fists as cultural bolsheviks get your gift child and take your choice physical growth also gift children the bright little things are not undersized pale and anemic they are generally bigger and more active than the average and hearty too sometimes too hearty say the observers they sometimes do seem to be smaller than the others merely an optical delusion the answer is simple they have been pushed ahead into classes of older children who are bigger merely because they are older in their own age class which they have outstripped out stripped the gifted children are big and bouncing in other words gift children may be ascetic but they dont look it they may be greasy grinds and little book worms but grinding and worming have built them up somehow physically as well as mentally there is another startling discovery about the gift baarns it is this their genius is not closely linked with dark insanity most of us have always thought otherwise we have been led to believe and even tc swear to it that genius and nuttiness are close pals almost siamese twins to be exact if genius over steps or overreaches over reaches itself its just too bad for the genius all this apparently science now tends to dis prove insane asylums are not actually filled with what used to be gifted children As a matter of fact say the statisticians gift kids are more stable in their emotional reactions than the plodding little hewers of wood and drawers of water this latest datum frankly does not nol make sense to your correspondent but there it is in black and white |