Parents of gifted preschoolers play an important role in their children's cognitive, affective, and social development and motivation for achievement. While effective parenting of all children is assumed to involve responsiveness to the individual child, it is suggested that the parents of gifted preschoolers are faced with developmental characteristics unique to the gifted child. Also discussed are the difficulties that parents may experience in dealing with individuals outside the family who criticize the parents' abilities to raise their child effectively.
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