Broken Hearts Box
I’m so fortunate to have friends willing to write guest posts for me. This one gets me right where it hurts, and is posted anonymously, as requested by her son. ******************* This afternoon my tween son came to me for …
I’m so fortunate to have friends willing to write guest posts for me. This one gets me right where it hurts, and is posted anonymously, as requested by her son. ******************* This afternoon my tween son came to me for …
Welcome to the trenches Ohhhh, this crazy, upside-down inside-out world of G2e parenting. It’s not like anything (vague arm waving) out there. It’s been 222 months since I landed in this trench. 969 weeks of every emotion you could possibly …
I’m so fortunate to have many friends in the gifted/twice-exceptional community, and that they are willing to write guest posts when I am trapped under something heavy (or just overwhelmed by daily life while planning for 2020). Please welcome my …
A little advice about giftedness “It must be nice,” she said to me, “to have a gifted child. You don’t have to worry about all this.” * My friend meant well, of course. Our kindergartners were in the same class, …
What does bragging look like to you? Let me tell you a story. It’s a story of a young woman who wanted to have children of her own. She had babysat and taught and daycared kids from age 12, had …
What does being an advocate mean to you? Do you see it as speaking at the statehouse, insisting on funding for gifted and twice-exceptional programs? Perhaps it’s working with the school district to actually have gifted and twice-exceptional programs. Maybe, …
Please, someone, tell me you also sometimes take the 30,000 foot view of humanity while lost in thought. Stepping back from the day to day nonsense and inspecting humanity as though we’re insects as viewed from a high-altitude jet. I …
I’ve had a question for parents of gifted and twice-exceptional kids that I’ve asked for years. What do you need? Inevitably the answer is something along the lines of time, money, sanity, walk-in liquor closet. But I’m not sure I’m …
Pick your battles. Not everything is worth the fight, and my god we still have so many ahead of us. This? Worth it.
I often wish I felt as confident as my professional head-shot portrays. I see that photo and think, “That woman’s got it together. She’s solid in her truth, knows her shit, and I want to be her.” Ironically, only one of …