Living With Live Wires

Encourage Sensible Risk-Taking in gifted children.  When creative people defy the crowd and buying low and selling high, they take risks in much the same way as do people who invest. Some such investments simply may not pan out.

Few children are willing to take risks in school, because they learn that taking risks can be costly. Perfect test scores and papers receive praise and open up future possibilities. To help children learn to take sensible risks, adults can encourage them to take some intellectual risks with courses, with activities, and with what they say to adults – to develop a sense of how to assess risks. (Sternberg, Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized) 

Having the chance to develop a sense of how to assess risks is critically important for gifted children!