The word 'good' is like the new 'bad.' Why settle for even 'smart' when you could instead call your child 'gifted'?

I've become known as a "failed gifted child", and the first hint of this occurred when I went to university.

With my first child, who landed comfortably within the official 'talented and gifted' category at school, I was insensitive to how pervasive the talk of giftedness had become.