Crushing Tall PoppiesGifted 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…
To Whom It May Concern: Being Gifted Sucks Sometimes
Monday, March 13, 2017
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…
Gifted Children and Non-Traditional Educational Choices
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
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…
Mentoring Gifted Children: It Takes a Village
Monday, November 14, 2016
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…
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…
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…
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….
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.
