DAROVITA DJECA I OBITELJ: ISTINE I ZABLUDE
TALENTED CHILDREN AND FAMILY: TRUTH S AND MISCONCEPTIONS

Summary/Abstract: ln analyzing the phenomenon of talent, the family of the talented is very often at the very center of interest as well as the question how much it can influence the development and expression of the child's productive talent. Pertaining to this issue various beliefs have been formed amongst non-experts that are considered correct, as for example the one that talent is a completely hereditary quality or that it is only socially determined, that talented children are the offspring of wealthier and more educated parents, that talented children are only first-borns or children from smaller families, that the first years of life which have been missed in stimulating the development of talent cannot be later compensated, that for developing talent it is most important for the parents to spend time with the child, that demanding and consistent parents are more successful in encouraging their child's talent etc.

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