Abstract
Objectives The purpose of this study was to explore the life experienced as a parent of gifted children.
 Methods The analysis of the data was conducted according to the narrative exploration procedure proposed by Clandinin and Connelly(2000) so that the participant's daily behaviors and thoughts could be identified in a specific context and the meaning of their experiences could be interpreted. As study participant, one of parents who has gifted children was selected. A participant had an average of 130 minutes per session, and a total of three in-depth interviews were conducted, and bssed on this, the final research text was prepared.
 Results The contents of the nine themes derived from the stories of the study participant are as follows. ‘Recognition of a child's outstanding abilities that are revealed everywhere’, ‘detection of a child's intractable brain disease’, ‘recognition of a child's giftedness and educational needs’, ‘understanding and support for a child's characteristics’, ‘treated as gifted child or problem child in school teacher evaluation’, ‘opening a channel for a child who feel frustrated with communication’, ‘trusting their child with confidence’, ‘difficulties with the unique psychological characteristics of gifted children’, and ‘respecting their child as a person’.
 Conclusions The meanings of the parenting experience are ‘understanding and accepting the child's characteristics’, ‘supporting for the child’, ‘being vigilant against controlling or interfering with the child due to parental anxiety, respecting and trusting the child’. This study deeply explored the process of raising gifted children until adulthood and found out the meaning. Based on this, it is expected that parents of gifted children who face various problems can be understood and used as basic data for education and counseling for them.
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