“Many gifted children acquire psycho-somatic problems, such as insomnia, headache, stomach pain, neuroses.”
The whole point of this sentence is that “psycho-somatic problems” are not actual health issues. I.e. when a gifted kid is complaining about her stomach, it’s very possible that there’s nothing actively wrong with her digestive system, and that the pain is just a random quirk due to excess stress.
Tens or hundreds of millions of parents/kids over the past century have done homeschooling, unschooling, or Montessori
“Homeschooling” and “Montessori” are not good stand-ins for the Polgár approach, at least not in isolation. “Unschooling” is a lot closer, and the jury is still out on that, I’d say. Even that, though, arguably lacks the focus on voluntary deliberate practice that appears to be critical in what the Polgárs were doing.
The whole point of this sentence is that “psycho-somatic problems” are not actual health issues. I.e. when a gifted kid is complaining about her stomach, it’s very possible that there’s nothing actively wrong with her digestive system, and that the pain is just a random quirk due to excess stress.
“Homeschooling” and “Montessori” are not good stand-ins for the Polgár approach, at least not in isolation. “Unschooling” is a lot closer, and the jury is still out on that, I’d say. Even that, though, arguably lacks the focus on voluntary deliberate practice that appears to be critical in what the Polgárs were doing.