Are you blessed with a gifted child? The local school system wants your child. The collegiate world wants your child. The world wants you child. Is that surprising? It should be scary! You should sit up and take notice. Your child is the plum on the tree that many people and policies of this world desire to control.
Why would the local school system care about your gifted child. They may not even have funding or services for a gifted child. Check here for your states gifted services Minding the Gap Your child will without much guidance raise the testing results for that school. Granted one child won’t do much but what if they enticed 10 back to the school or more. Than you begin seeing some shifts. Also your gifted child does fall under a general special needs funding. They qualify for an IEP under certain circumstance. So your gifted child is money to the local school.
Why would the college world care? Colleges and universities across the country are gaining a reputation for producing liberal thinkers. The more intellectually talented your child is the more likely they will go on to do great things. Or teach others. What if you helped that child “see the light” of a populist government or a governmental based parental attitude. To tend to the masses, doing what is in their best interests. Your child’s intellect is merely a tool to be used and bent to the will of a larger movement.
Your child’s intellect is a gift from God and for those of us raising a Godly gifted child we need to protect it. We also must base our training and guidance of our child out of the Bible. Your gifted child will need something bigger than themselves to maintain balance in the face of these danger. Your child needs God.
We are going to be talking about giftedness this week. Stick around and lets discuss the privileges and problems in raising a Godly gifted child.