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Imagine a World Where Gifted Kids Don’t Have to Wait
It all started in first grade when you eagerly finished the entire workbook in one night. You thought your teacher would be pleased. She was not pleased. You were told to sit and color the pictures and WAIT until the other first graders caught up with you. Then there was the time they were teaching addition…
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“Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting…” Extreme Giftedness
“Since the first moments of his existence, Taylor has complicated, confounded, and chaoticized nearly every detail of his family’s lives.” So says Tom Clynes, author of the recently released and captivating book– The Boy Who Played With Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting And How to Make a Star. Taylor Wilson, a profoundly gifted child, built a…
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Sunshine Blogger Award
With this post, I’m taking a short break from my usual blogging agenda to participate in what appears to be a WordPress tradition where bloggers acknowledge their fellow bloggers with an “award.” And who doesn’t like an award? In the process, my blog gets noticed by more folks and I return the favor by acknowledging other…
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Gifted Women With Gifted Kids — Exhilarating or Exhausting?
What happens when a gifted woman has a gifted child? Is it a match made in heaven? Is it Exhilarating? Exhausting? Terrifying? Yes. “As a mom of a gifted child, we walk a lonely, difficult and heartbreaking road on our unwavering quest to help our gifted children navigate through a world that does not understand…
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Still Gifted After All These Years
What if, when you were five years old, you knew you wanted to be a paleontologist-astronaut-librarian-dancer-firefighter when you grew up? What if, when you were nine years old, your favorite activity was listening to your mom read from her texts on Darwin’s theory of evolution? What if, when you were ten, you were devastated when you couldn’t…
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Know Your Gifted Child — Find Your Gifted Self
“My ten-year-old, Christopher, is getting failing grades. I think he has ADHD. He may be in the principal’s office more than he’s in the classroom. His camp counselor told me that he might be gifted but how’s that possible? If he were gifted, he’d be getting A’s, wouldn’t he? I don’t know what to do…
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My Smart Kid Is So Emotional–Am I A Parenting Failure?
Your child is emotional. Anxious. Melting down. Telling you that you’re the worst parent. Ever. Not in so many words, necessarily. But still. You know that you’re the worst parent. Ever. “How can such a smart kid behave this way?” you wonder. “How did I screw up so badly?” I hear this often from parents of…
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It’s A Jungle In There — Explaining Giftedness
It’s embarrassing. You probably don’t tell anyone that you read this blog. You keep it a secret. Right? Because if you told them, you’d have to explain just what a rainforest mind is. And then you might have to tell them that there could be a very very slim chance but it’s probably unlikely that…
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