In my last column in GCT, I attempted to illustrate some of the salient ways in which the lives of gifted students today are significantly different from previous generations. Later in the column, I made a plea to adults to understand that growing up in a time not experienced by previous generations requires us to act in ways that are not necessarily the ways we think we should.
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