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Hey there, it's Debbie.

Today's episode is a special re-release of a favorite conversation from the archives.

Unless you're a long time listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one before.

And even if you have, you just might get something completely different from it this time around.

Finally occurred to me that we can't just tell our children they are gifted.

They probably already know they're different from other kids.

But we need to help them understand what that giftedness means, all the pros and cons.

It needs to be a long conversation and instead the message kids were getting, oh, you're

identified, you're in a gifted program, okay, that just simply means you're smarter than everybody else and you ought to be getting

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