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The Family and it’s Members

CHAPTER IX
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But far clearer would be their own approach to the matter in hand if they could study some such chart as is here alluded to and get a clear direction as to what to look for and how to measure what they find.

If such parents, however, would be really assured in their first appreciation of their child they need the cooeperative observation and fuller opportunity of comparison which a teacher of a school, who is herself or himself a good psychologist, can place at their service.

All of us can see our own children at their best; few can justly estimate what the power of that best may be in a competitive world.
=What to Do with the Specially Gifted Child.=--The child may be one of the few elected to leadership in some field.

All who watch and study and understand may agree that it is the gift of its birthright.

Then what is there to do?
The question often arises, Shall the other children in the family be given less opportunity in order that this gifted one may have the larger chance which genius and great talent really demand for fulfilment of promise?
There was no doubt of the answer to this question in the minds of those who believed that a special gift carried with it special privilege provided the special gift discovered were of a sort understood by all.


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