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…
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…
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….
Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Gifted
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
“Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.” Often when I think of the perception most of society seem to hold about gifted children, I am always reminded of…
Yes, My Gifted Child is a Know-It-All: A Case for Acceleration
Thursday, September 17, 2015
“Mom, I swear, they must have put me in remedial math. I am the only one who knows what is going on—I know everything!” This was my…
I’m Not THAT Parent
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
I’m not THAT parent. Having a gifted child, an intellectually gifted child, does not make me THAT parent. There is no need to sound the alarm and send…
Your Gifted Child’s Education–When to Get Off the Bus and Leave Traditional School Behind
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Your child is gifted. What happens now? What will his school do now that he has been identified? How will his education change? What do I do if…
