I get it. The vast majority of people think that gifted children are the smart, advantaged students in an esteemed, sometimes seemingly elitist, special program at school—it’s a…
Guess what? Your child is probably not gifted. This sentiment has been posted, oftentimes quite smugly, as a comment on numerous recent articles on the topic of gifted…
Kindergarten Teacher 1: I had Suzy’s mom come talk to me after school today. Oh gawd, I hear this every year. Kindergarten Teacher 2: What did she say?…
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…
~ What Learning Should and Should Not Be ~ Traditional classroom education is a well-known historical institution with an organizational structure and operational protocols that have changed little…
Susan and Doug Blanchard live in a small town in the Midwest, and they are the parents of three daughters. Rosie is 3 years old, Annie is 7…
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…
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…
“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…
What is Life Without Friends? The title may be misleading because, in my experience, the social struggles of gifted children are not so much that gifted children are inept…
Crushing Tall Poppies
