10 Things You Never Knew About “Crushing Tall Poppies”

Thursday, January 7, 2016

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 Gifted

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

“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…

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. 

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…

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…

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…