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I read a letter of a mother of a gifted child to a an expert with gifted children stating that her son was always complaining that he doesn't like his teacher for she talks in baby language and she lets them sing baby songs. Having an insufficient understanding of being different from their normally developing classmates, gifted children may find themselves wanting to learn more than being boxed with other kids of their age. They want to quench their thirst for knowledge. However, in the process, they tend to develop negative thoughts about school and teachers. Thus, they tend to exhibit behavioral problems.

Behavioral problems of gifted children could be mainly correlated to their asynchronous development. This development means that the child has uneven development in their mind, body and emotions. However their intellectual development would always be more advanced in development compared to the other two aspects.

To explain further, a gifted child may live in different ages at once. She may show high intellectual capabilities at some point but the time his emotions rule, he would go back to his true age going through tantrums and endless sobbing. He may be find it happy playing with kids his age but the next day, he would be bored that he would find conversing with older kids to be more challenging.

PROBLEMS OF HAVING HIGH COGNITIVE LEVELS

Because of high intellectual level, a gifted child often acts differently in his own classroom. He has the thinking of being above from the rest of his classmates when it comes to grades, academic awards and school recognitions so he sometimes has the tendency to "belittle" the capabilities of his classmates.

In classroom discussions, the child may either be very cooperative having advanced knowledge in the lessons tackled by his teacher but it is mostly that he will suffer from boredom as he is not challenged by the lessons and he would feel no improvement with them..

When the child becomes very cooperative, there is a tendency that he would dominate class discussions making no room for the improvement of his classmates. Therefore, teachers should know how to manage situations like this. The other children in the classrooms would also suffer from some issues within themselves as the picture of favoritism may come across their minds. They may also tend to compare their abilities with their gifted classmate and they would develop low self-esteem having very little understanding on the advanced development of their gifted classmate.

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