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.
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
Reflections on guilt, t-shirts, loneliness, heartache and fitting in Who would have thought that cleaning out my gifted child’s closet—sorting through the keepsakes, the clothes to donate, and…
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Monday, April 13, 2015
Yes, by now we’ve seen the recent articles (see below) and studies reminding us yet again that gifted children have been getting the short end of the educational…
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Parenting a gifted child? Fearful about your gifted child’s education? Weary from the many issues that crop up all too often with your gifted child? Yes, there is…
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
We meet people, we interact with them for a short while, and soon we characterize them and place them into one of the people and personality categories we…
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Monday, January 12, 2015
In order to apply for this program, we need a copy of her birth certificate, a copy of her social security card, a copy of her vaccination record…
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Monday, September 15, 2014
Children are our future. At some point in our lives, we will grow old and depend on the younger generations, including our own children, to look out for…
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014
In my recent blog post A Gifted Child Checklist for Teachers , I listed ten basic characteristics and traits of gifted children intended to help teachers and others to identify giftedness…
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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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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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Crushing Tall Poppies
