To the parents who wish for their child to be gifted. To the teachers who think gifted children should easily excel in school. Or for that matter, to…
Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development-CTD is a resource-rich program for gifted children. They offer online programs, summer programs, weekend programs, service-learning programs, and an active online community…
It’s not easy growing up gifted, especially when so few get that your not-quite-the-norm behaviors are inherent with your giftedness and are really not a problem or an…
Emile, a 13-year old, hates school and is convinced he can’t learn. Worse, he feels—no, he knows—he doesn’t often fit in with his age mates. Although he used…
Three years have passed since I wrote the popular post, 8 Things the World Must Understand About Gifted Children. Sadly, not much has changed for gifted children—they are…
It’s only human nature. When faced with having to deliver a subjective judgement or choosing one person over another, we humans often decide with our hearts and not…
Too smart for your own good. What does this familiar saying really mean? How can being smart undermine what should be good? And how does this relate to…
A few months shy of three years ago, without a thought to the future or a plan in my head, I guilelessly created my blog, Crushing Tall Poppies….
“Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.” Often when I think of the perception most of society seem to hold about gifted children, I am always reminded of…
The many adjectives we use to describe our daily lives as the parents of gifted children are often polar opposites, at either end of the spectrum. Exhilarating and exhausting. Jubilant and melancholy. Optimistic and discouraged. Triumphant and floundering. And these opposing adjectives often happen the same day, at the very same moment. The analogies and adjectives describe some sort of sanity-stealing life which surges us up and then sucks us back down. Often. Daily. Hourly.
Crushing Tall Poppies
