Monday, May 4, 2020
Trusting my ability to read other people and their situations is something I need to accept and honor. As I look back on meaningful, traumatic, or momentous occasions where I intuited the situation or the person correctly, I should be confident in my empathic ability. If I’m honest, my empathy crosses over into the unknown, and my fact- and science-based thinking doesn’t set foot into pseudoscientific phenomena. I can only accept that my unnatural ability to perceive and intuit comes from my gift of empathy.
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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…
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Monday, June 15, 2015
“You will never get teachers to understand.” “Too many teachers only see gifted children as smart, high-achievers.” “It’s the word gifted. Change the word and maybe it won’t…
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Gifted children and anxiety often seem to go hand in hand. Experiencing their world more intensely as well as having a more intuitive understanding of complex connections and…
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Go to school, study, make good grades, go to college, work hard—this is a universal recipe for success so often offered to our children. For some children who…
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
In a positive way, I wanted to address the need for all educators to understand and recognize the traits and needs of our gifted children. I used the web-based presentation…
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Monday, December 15, 2014
If there is just one thing I wish every person who does not understand giftedness, and yes, I did say every, could understand is that giftedness often comes packaged…
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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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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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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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