IQ testing and "gifted" labelling is as toxic as any other. Look at how many prodigies say life was distorted.

Keep bright kids active, extended? Sure. But maintain links to your peer group.

The cohort of people in the beyond normal bucket is tiny. Building dreams by hothousing is intellectual child abuse in most cases.

Every "mensa" child I knew as a kid was an arrogant fuckhead. (I'm average, or below. Content.)

My dad was super smart. He didn't push us. He said "regression tends to the mean" at the time, which I didn't understand but maybe now I do kinda. Aspire to be socially average but above normal productive, and maximise what you have judiciously