what are the positive characteristics of the gifted children?

Answer 1

Many gifted children learn to read early, with better comprehension of the nuances of language. As much as half the gifted and talented population has learned to read before entering school.
Gifted children often read widely, quickly, and intensely and have large vocabularies.
Gifted children commonly learn basic skills better, more quickly, and with less practice.
They are better able to construct and handle abstractions.
They often pick up and interpret nonverbal cues and can draw inferences that other children need to have spelled out for them.
They take less for granted, seeking the "hows" and "whys."
They can work independently at an earlier age and can concentrate for longer periods.
Their interests are both wildly eclectic and intensely focused.
They often have seemingly boundless energy, which sometimes leads to a misdiagnosis of hyperactivity.
They usually respond and relate well to parents, teachers, and other adults. They may prefer the company of older children and adults to that of their peers.
They like to learn new things, are willing to examine the unusual, and are highly inquisitive.
They tackle tasks and problems in a well-organized, goal-directed, and efficient manner.
They exhibit an intrinsic motivation to learn, find out, or explore and are often very persistent. "I'd rather do it myself" is a common attitude.
Gifted children are fluent thinkers, able to generate possibilities, consequences, or related ideas.
They are flexible thinkers, able to use many different alternatives and approaches to problem solving.
They are original thinkers, seeking new, unusual, or unconventional associations and combinations among items of information.
They can also see relationships among seemingly unrelated objects, ideas, or facts.
They are elaborate thinkers, producing new steps, ideas, responses, or other embellishments to a basic idea, situation, or problems.
They are willing to entertain complexity and seem to thrive on problem solving.
They are good guessers and can readily construct hypotheses or "what if" questions.
They often are aware of their own impulsiveness and irrationality, and they show emotional sensitivity.
They are extremely curious about objects, ideas, situations, or events.
They often display intellectual playfulness and like to fantasize and imagine.
They can be less intellectually inhibited than their peers are in expressing opinions and ideas, and they often disagree spiritedly with others' statements.
They are sensitive to beauty and are attracted to aesthetic values.

Answer 2

The greatest positive characteristic of gifted children is that, hopefully, one of them will save this planet from another self-destructive gifted child.

Answer 3

Gifted children are divided in many categories. Some have artistic talent, some have verbal, spacial, numerical etc.
Positive characteristics? they are attentive, quick to pick up and learn new concepts generally. But i believe they dont have any 'characteristics' by which you could recognize them. They dont have huge eyes or heads or any of that.
They're just like normal children.