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…
“Mom, you remember my first tricycle with the push bar that screwed in on the back?” “Yes”, I replied, quizzically wondering where this conversation was going to…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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, …
Crushing Tall Poppies
