Crushing Tall PoppiesI’m Jealous of Your Smart Kid
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Yes, I am jealous, but I would never roll my eyes or say nasty, mean things about you or your child. Nope, I keep my envy to myself,…
Suffering in Silence: Who’s Really Paying the Price for the Neglect of Our Gifted Children?
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…
#6 Gifted Students Develop Asynchronously
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…
#5 Gifted Students Often Struggle Socially
Thursday, July 10, 2014
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…
A Gifted Child’s Owner’s Manual
Monday, July 7, 2014
We’ve probably all heard this sentiment many times as parents. Despite all the websites, books, magazines and articles available about parenting and raising children, the information offered in any…
#4 Gifted Students Can Have Learning Disabilities
Monday, June 30, 2014
Twice-exceptional – gifted with one or more learning disabilities or learning differences. Twice-exceptional (or 2E) children can have extra burdens on them, more so than other gifted children, …
#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…
#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,…
#1 Gifted Students Do Not Always Excel in School
Thursday, June 12, 2014
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…
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…
