Re: Gifted

This article irked me. It's entitled:  Parenting Gifted Kids: Keep Them Challenged and Humble

That advice applies to ALL kids, not just the gifted ones. 

Aren’t all kids gifted by very virtue of the fact they are here and have potential? 

I don’t mean that in a cumbyaya-huggy-granola way but as a simple truth. If engaged and mentored and nurtured couldn’t the average kid do at least one thing well if they loved it and practiced a lot?

Don't they all qualify as gifted at something. There are some little mathematicians, budding scientists, great writers, voracious readers, excellent joke tellers, superb dancers, angelic voices and talented artists out there.

ALL kids, all people for that matter, should be kept, as the articles says, “challenged and humble”. 

Pretty much all kids are smarter than what is expected of them in school - if not across the board then most certainly at one thing. 

Parents read to their kids in utero, kids watch TV earlier, play educational games on devices before they can speak, are exposed to more sooner and have adults with them on playdates for the first five years of their lives who monitor, interject, correct, explain and explore with them and as a result kids are articulate, tech savvy and keen before they even get to school.

But, the curriculum hasn't changed to reflect the fact kids head into school with busier brains so how could they not appear talented or gifted at something?

Defined like this:

The term gifted and talented student means children and youths who give evidence of higher performance capability in such areas as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who require services or activities not ordinarily provided by the schools in order to develop such capabilities fully.

... every kid fits the bill in some way and gifted is the new normal.

What do you think?