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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Intense Emotions in Children with High Learning Potential” font_container=”tag:h1|font_size:36|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1606639127515{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”31202″ img_size=”475×270″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1598717552936{background-color: #f8f8fc !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”30″][vc_column_text]Children with high learning potential often suffer from intense emotions which cause them to overreact and behave in a way that is odd at times. Intense emotions combined with advanced understanding and perception can result in extreme anxiety in children with high learning potential. Similarly, these factors also contribute to concerns about world issues, feelings of unfairness and, sometimes, depression.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator border_width=”2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”31204″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Hypersensitivity\/Overexcitabilities<\/h2>\n

Many children with high learning potential have an emotional development that is beyond their years.\u00a0 Discussed in detail in Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration, a personality development theory, these hypersensitivities\/ overexcitabilities mean that life for children with high learning potential is experienced in a manner that is deeper, more vivid and more acutely sensed. Discover more about this in our page on Hypersensitivities<\/a> and in our advice sheet PA610 Hypersensitivity (Dabrowski\u2019s Overexcitabilities)<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator border_width=”2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_empty_space height=”65″][vc_single_image image=”29675″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Social and Emotional Development<\/h2>\n

While children and young people with high learning potential often have intense emotions, they\u00a0 lack experience in dealing with these feelings. This affects their emotional regulation and can look like emotional immaturity. Their intense emotions and intellectual curiosity can often separate them from their peers, making it more difficult for them to find friendships where they are accepted and where they will naturally learn emotional regulation through interacting and modelling the children around them.<\/p>\n

Advanced moral development may also mean that children with high learning potential see themselves as equal to any other individual (child or adult) and they will often demand or respond much more positively to respectful treatment. Where this is not present they may have difficulty accepting authority from someone just because they are older than them.<\/p>\n

Discover more about helping children with high learning potential in their emotional development through our advice sheets:<\/p>\n