Managing Anxiety in Your Gifted Child
- By Ginny Kochis
- May 13, 2022
Gifted children aren’t only more focused, curious, and precocious. They’re also more intense, more sensitive, and more anxious.
I have three of them—each one with her own brand of anxiety. It’s an ever-present reality we’ve learned to live with in our homeschool. On good days, it’s pretty manageable: we acknowledge the fear, address it, and move on. On bad days, it’s crippling: there are tears, stomach aches, cancellations and despair.