Not the Underdog, Yet, the Underdog

Thursday, March 24, 2016

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…

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Gifted Children: Too Smart for Their Own Good

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

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…

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Understanding Gifted Parenting

Monday, November 16, 2015

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. 

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My Child is Gifted and I Can’t Talk About Him

Friday, October 30, 2015

My child is gifted, and I can’t talk about him— Because there is an incredibly fine line between simply talking about your gifted child and appearing to be…

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Gifted Children: The Differences are Real

Monday, October 19, 2015

Gifted children. A whole lot has been written about them, and I’ve done my share of putting information out there about the ups and the downs of life…

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Envy and Your Gifted Child

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

It All Starts at an Early Age At 18 months of age, he could identify all of his colors, the primary ones as well as most of the…

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“Teacher, that’s not quite right!”

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

When Gifted Children Challenge Authority and Their Teachers Oh boy!  Here comes one of those steep, steep slopes on the raising-a-gifted-child roller coaster. It is that scary ascent…

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Your Gifted Child and the Gift of Gab

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Loquacious   Storyteller   Chatty   Talkative   Garrulous   Motormouthed Could a high-verbal output (a.k.a., talking a lot) be a sign of giftedness? Many professionals who study…

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It’s a Funny Thing: A Gifted Child’s Sense of Humor

Thursday, September 10, 2015

What did the constipated ketchup say? Must-turd. Have you ever wondered who makes up all of the jokes we hear nearly every day? The classics, the riddles, the…

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The Gifted Lagniappe Series

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Lagniappe is a Cajun French word that means a little something extra, a little extra gift, a bonus, or something more—kinda like getting a 13th donut when you paid…

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