Was put through the gifted program through my local school system when I was a kid, took the psych test for it, did honors/AP throughout high school, yadda yadd

Was put through the gifted program through my local school system when I was a kid, took the psych test for it, did honors/AP throughout high school, yadda yadda. Do not pigeonhole your kid. That is the perfect, most direct way to fuck her up mentally into adulthood. My parents wanted me to be a doctor (immigrant parents) and sure enough all the programs were pushing me to subjects I had zero care for. I hated every bit of their push. They later tried I should be a lawyer. After I left home, I haven't spoken to them since. That was about 15 years ago. I wanted to be an engineer doing big things like bridges, skyscrapers or even rockets. They thought that didnt make for a "successful big career". I lost out on going to the colleges I wanted to for this because I didnt have the neccessary extra curricular activities to get in. The thing with most gifted kids, they're interested in "all the things". I mean it. I went through a month to three long spurts of crazy dives into a topic. Still do actually. Let your kid be curious. Expose them to the world. Dont narrow them down. They'll do that on their own as they explore the world, which will happen in their late teens at the soonest. Me having decent knowledge in an extremely wide range of topics has been my greatest asset, especially since I went into business for myself. If they become hyper specialized on their own, good, foster that. If they hyper study a topic, then jump to the next, foster that. Guess what, your daughter is a little human, not a fucking cog that society pretends to automatically own so they can solve the world's problems. This gifted child bullshit, I hate using this word but is appropriate, is extremely toxic for people especially when they grow up. Nothing is ever good enough and we feel underperforming at every turn. Dont do this gifted pigeonholing bullshit to her, for the love of all that is pure and good. Raise her as a human and embrace her interests as they arise. The best you can do is love her and go out of your way to occasionally show her something new of the world.