Is your child gifted?
Here’s some advice. Do not praise them. Do not encourage them or reward them in any way. Instead, get them a job at Mutual of Omaha. I offer the following example as a cautionary tale that proves my contention.
American composer Charles Ives graduated from Yale with a D-plus GPA. After college, he sensibly took a position with a large insurance firm and prospered as a businessman, finding time to write music on the side between the creative exercise of assembling actuarial tables. He was not particularly pleased that most of his musical works went unperformed, but he was well regarded in the home office, never missed a “team building” weekend, and his finances were such that he could go on composing, whether people were interested in his work or not…