clipped from: www.cnn.com   

Is your kid really gifted? Probably not


Did your child walk and talk early? Does she have a brain like a sponge? Scribble magnificently? Love learning? Ask questions that leave you marveling (and scrambling to Google an answer)?


Wow, clearly she's a genius!


Or, um, maybe not.


The vast majority of children are not gifted. Only 2 to 5 percent of kids fit the bill, by various estimates. Of those,