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Every Child Born Gifted "Being a parent (of three bona fide Gifted Intelligent children of different ages, varying cognitive abilities) implies becoming an advocate, a preacher, a lawyer, an accountant, a teacher, a nurse, and much more. Parents hold their children's guardianship, their proxy, their power of attorney, their custody, and their care.  They are our children's representatives in the adult society and the protectors of their legal and human rights.  Parents have the responsibility for their children's care and development 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for as long as they remain dependent.”  Lacrosse- 1982     As parent-educators for our three gifted/talented students, modification of each of our gifted students’ curriculums had to be made to accommodate each child’s specific and individual necessities. This included changing the “content and ability level of all material” per child. To make an affective curriculum for each individual child, we found it necessary  to design a curriculum to include teaching our gifted students about emotions, self-esteem, and social skills. This proved valuable for our children as students and us, parent-educators, but, especially, our eldest child, because she had been grouped with much older students. Academically, DUKE University testing demonstrated our daughter scored high in the 98 percentile in Reading and 89 percentile in Math, compared with college bound students, while she was only 7 years old. In our home school, our children worked in the same classroom, most of their learning time, still different ages and different curriculums as well as levels of ability and strengths.