I tried. Please, know that I tried. My goal in raising these two boys was to raise them to be successful orphans. Well, that was step one. Step two was to mold them into young men whose future partners wouldn’t …
For May’s GHF blog topic I’ve updated and edited this post from April 2015. The more things change, the more they stay the same. If you’ve spent any time in gifted circles, or read about gifted adults, or checked out …
Monkey see, Monkey do, Monkey embarrass you in public by sharing that word they learned when you thought they were out of earshot. They’re always watching. No pressure, right? The kids are always watching and god help you if you …
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, …
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 …
Back in the glory days of blogging (let’s say the late aughts or so, before social media and monetization took over), I lived and died by my RSS reader. Oh, Google Reader, how I still miss thee. It would collect …
I’m just going to cut to the chase. Heather Boorman’s new book, The Gifted Kids Workbook, is absolutely brilliant, it’s exactly what I needed a decade ago, and if you’re parenting or teaching a gifted kid (roughly between the ages of …
I believe giftedness is wiring, the way a person observes, interprets, and responds to the world around them. They barrel out of the womb wired however they are and that’s that. We’ll have gifted individuals at the end of days, …
For some reason, I have several friends with newborns right now. I see their posts on Facebook about sleepless nights and my heart goes out to them. I remember those days and nights far too well. Ok, full disclosure…I don’t remember …
