Crushing Tall PoppiesGifted Child? How to Manage the Roadblocks
Monday, October 22, 2018
You’re the parent of a gifted child, or maybe all of your children are gifted. If you are just starting out on this journey, you may not as…
Blindsided by Giftedness
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
“Looking at Sam’s recent test scores that we just received, it puts your son in the highly gifted range. Your son is gifted, Mrs. Welch.” Well hey, swell—that’s…
Giftedness is 24/7 for a Lifetime
Friday, August 10, 2018
Or to put it another way: we need to sever the misleading associative ties between giftedness and educational achievement that are so pervasive and harmful. Lately, I’ve wondered…
Gifted Children: ‘Tis Folly to be Wise?
Friday, July 21, 2017
Ignorance is bliss. I’ve come across this snippet of a quote through the years without more than a few seconds of consideration to its true…
Gifted Children: Culturally, Ethnically, Racially and Socially Diverse
Monday, June 26, 2017
In A Gifted Child Checklist for Teachers, I listed ten basic characteristics and traits of gifted children intended to help teachers and others identify giftedness in all children…
9 Things the World Must Understand About Gifted Children
Monday, June 6, 2016
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…
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…
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…
“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…
