#3 Gifted Students are Often Extremely Sensitive

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

The physical and mental filter through which outside stimuli enters the mind and body of a gifted person seems to be equipped with an automatic 100X Increase Sensory…

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#2 Gifted Students Often Have Emotional Intensities

Monday, June 16, 2014

  “Emotional intensity in the gifted is not a matter of feeling more than other people, but a different way of experiencing the world: vivid, absorbing, penetrating, encompassing,…

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#1 Gifted Students Do Not Always Excel in School

Thursday, June 12, 2014
From "A Gifted Child Checklist for Teachers"

From the post: A Gifted Child Checklist for Teachers In my blog post, A Gifted Child Checklist for Teachers, I listed ten basic characteristics and traits of gifted children–really nine…

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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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When Gifted Students Don’t Measure Up

Thursday, June 5, 2014

It’s Really All About the Grades, Isn’t It? As parents, when we send our children off to school, we want them to receive a great education to prepare…

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LEGO® and the Gifted Visual-Spatial Child

Sunday, June 1, 2014

    LEGO®   Is there not a more perfect toy?  Boys, girls, toddlers, children and adults – everyone loves LEGO®!  I would venture to claim that LEGO®…

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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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Let Them Know They are Gifted

Monday, May 19, 2014

Although my youngest gifted son is 14 years old now, I feel as though I have many more years of parenting experience behind me than I do ahead…

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Raising Gifted Children? Let It Go

Monday, May 5, 2014

No…really…Just let it go! As parents, we are often so focused on guiding the lives of our children because we want our children to be successful.  We schedule,…

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Gifted Advocacy and Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Non-confrontational, a little shy, avoids uncomfortable conversations, rule-follower – not exactly the most optimal personality type the parent of a gifted child would need to ford the deep,…

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