In the author's work, parental anxiety is a strong predictor of children's anxiety. This means that if a child is faced with an anxious mother or father, the child will most likely experience anxiety. In addition to parental anxiety, he contends that there are parenting situations that may contribute to a child experiencing anxiety. Children's experience of anxiety may be of low or high intensity depending on the home psychological environment. For example, gentle parental correction of misbehavior leads to rather low intensity anxiety; rough parental correction leads to high intensity. While some sources of anxiety are common to all children, parents, teachers, and caregivers of gifted children need to know that gifted kids also may have unique sources of anxiety. The social-emotional characteristics often contributing to anxiety in gifted individuals include: (1) Heightened sensitivity, which indicates a greater awareness of the physical, social, and intrapersonal environments; (2) Analytical attitude is a gifted individual's propensity to question, evaluate, and judge everything and everyone they encounter; and (3) Self-criticism. By reducing the anxiety at home, there will be a significant positive change in their children's sense of personal security. In addition, parents of gifted children, who tend to be gifted themselves, can draw on their own experiences to help children understand how giftedness itself may cause anxiety. When parents engage in honest self-analysis and increase their understanding of giftedness, gifted children are the beneficiaries.