Appetite

Kids get hungry and need to be fed. If they don’t eat they get cranky and uncomfortable. Life is difficult for them and for us.

However, it is not just their body which gets hungry. Gifted kids have an intellectual appetite that must also be fed. If their brain is ‘hungry’ they can be just as cranky and uncomfortable (but often not really know why – it doesn’t come with the physical sensation of hungry that is more easily recognised).

Not surprisingly perhaps, the emotional response (melt down or acting out perhaps) often calms down when their brains are appropriately fed (and watered)