I’m Jealous of Your Smart Kid

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Yes, I am jealous, but I would never roll my eyes or say nasty, mean things about you or your child. Nope, I keep my envy to myself,…

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Suffering in Silence: Who’s Really Paying the Price for the Neglect of Our Gifted Children?

Monday, July 21, 2014

No child should have to suffer simply because they were born gifted   One only needs to google just two words: gifted and neglected.  You will find page…

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#6 Gifted Students Develop Asynchronously

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

“But I am sure the Naval Research Laboratory has a gift shop that sells scanning tunneling microscopes so I can create my own quantum dots with identical, deterministic…

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A Gifted Child Checklist for Teachers

Monday, June 9, 2014

Summer is catch-up time for many of us, and on my catch-up list is reading, lots of reading.  Amazon has made it way too easy to download the…

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Casting Stones at Cacti. Our Intolerance of Gifted People

Monday, May 26, 2014

  Standing out like stately rarities in the middle of a vast, congruous desert are impressive and curiously-shaped Saguaro cacti.  These unique cacti, towering over the other desert…

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The Burdens of Gifted Children

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Gifted children have an unusual cross to bear; most of society sees giftedness as–well, as a gift, but gifted children most often see it is a curse. Like…

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