The best gift that we can give to our gifted child is our attention. For that matter all children deserve that gift from us. And our return gift is of course the pleasure of discovering their personality as it unfolds. As Albert Einstein puts it, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Our dedication as adults to restore that gift, can do wonders for the next generation society. We need our attention to discover if routine is the key of our child’s future or is it destroying our child’s potential. We need our judicious mind to determine a structure that will ascertain our child’s innovation through logical thinking.
Some children will give their best in a large setting while others will unfold in a smaller one. And to establish that, the important thing is to not stop listening, touching, sensing and feeling what our child feels. It’s our greatest opportunity to live those years again, to see things as they see them, to hear the music that they dance to, and speak the same language that they do, It’s our opportunity to discover their talents that yes, we expected them to have and rejoice the surprises that we receive all along. It’s our window to a whole new world with greater enthusiasm and wisdom. It’s our opportunity to discover the gift that our child is born with and the gift that has been bestowed upon us. Once we start to feel what our child feels, they too begin to feel what we feel. It is mutual, the respect, the affection, the awareness and the gratitude. Both generations begin to live in harmony with the sole exhilaration of achievement.
