Title: Too Negative and Alarmist
Product review: The book starts out with an anecdote about a gifted child who committed suicide, and continues with other warnings and horror stories about stress, discipline, depression and underachieving in gifted children. Although much of the information is potentially valuable, it is presented in a pseudo-scholarly manner that takes much of the joy away from the challenge of raising a gifted child. Like my son, I was labeled as highly gifted as a child, and after reading the book, I am grateful to be functioning and not on Prozac. A more simplistic but much more enlightening book on the subject is "The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids" by Sally Yahnke Walker.
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