Gifted at something doesnt mean gifted at everything.........

Since I wrote the last post, Tiger Woods has been in the news again, and again it seems. It occurred to me that the way things have unfolded makes another good point.

Just because someone is gifted, doesnt mean that they are necessarily good at everything.  While we might find it fairly easy to grasp that a mathematician may not also be a gifted athlete, or a talented musician may not also be a famous scientist, we may not have really thought much about whether we think gifted children (or adults) should automatically be good at making decisions.

Like learning to ride a bike, or to master using a pencil, decision making is a skill and as such takes practice. Helping your child to learn to make decisions is not always an easy task. The temptation to make them for them, so that they dont 'get it wrong' is strong, but it is never the less an important skill. There will be times when they dont make a 'good' decision, but there is plenty to be learned from the experience. As no doubt Tiger Woods is also discovering.