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Parenting Emotionally Intense Gifted Children
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Lesley Sword
Lesley Sword is the Director of Gifted & Creative Services Australia, a consultant who specialises in the psychology of the gifted and has worked with gifted people of all ages.
 
By Lesley Sword
Published on 02/20/2006
 
One of the basic characteristics of the gifted is their intensity. Intensity is not a matter of degree but of a different way of experiencing: vivid, absorbing, penetrating, encompassing, complex, commanding - a way of being quiveringly alive.