Nurturing Giftedness For a New Generation

February 01, 2015





Yeah, I remember those times when this commercial was aired at around 1995, and my mom said to me that I should aspire to be like them. I practiced everyday with my declaiming skills(I was 3 years old back then and already competing for Lipa City's Day Care Pagent), but then as I grew older I got more interested in writing essays and poems and now I also am fascinated with photography.

When I watched this commercial again, I was kinda curious as to what is happening now with the budding poet, the promising astronomer and the medical marvel...






Was there ever any doubt that they wouldn’t grow up to become successful gifted alumni?


“A gifted child can be expected to learn faster than other children, have more varied interests, have greater depth of feeling and generally be more than other children,” explains Dra. Leticia Peñano-Ho, President of the Philippine Center for Gifted Education


But environmental conditions, honing the dedication to succeed at such an early age, as well as providing good nutrition, are all factors that contribute to their development—and are all typically provided for by their family.


Here are a few words of wisdom from the trio:

Kiko Galura:


Recognizing the gift in a kid is the first step, what matters is that, most of the journey towards becoming adults, so that your kids become the best version of themselves, is through nurturing. Because when the kid grows up, sometimes, he wants one thing but it's not really what he wants when he grows up. So the role of the parents is really to guide them, they can do that by exposing them to the fields of creativity. Example take them to different classes - theater, music, film.

James Flores:


They don't have to keep it in themselves because, if you have a light within you, you cannot keep it, it's gonna shine. So they have to believe it and that they should work hard (referring to the little kids in the audience) and to the parents, if you see that there's a potential, which every kid has, there's a light within them - we have to encourage them to develop and we have to support them to do their thing. Give them opportunities to discover and improve on their talent. But most importantly, besides this encouragement, supporting them, giving them opportunities, the priorities, of course, is that their children should be doing something that makes them happy. When I was a kid, I was happy with all the astronomy stuff. I was having fun doing them. That's how it developed, I was happy with music - there's no substitute for that.

And finally (si idol ko), Shaira Luna:


I don't think that what's important is to become superior than anyone else, be better than anyone else, you need to just do the work in disciplining your children, work ethics, learning how to cope with other people, I think the role is to be comftable adults, no matter how gifted you are. It's Ok to be different.


After the interview with our gifted alumni, we were treated to a great song and a few more little nuggets of wisdom by Mr. Joey Ayala. He has a great point- let children experience the outdoors, cause there's so much more to learning than just books and iPads.





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