{2e Tuesday} Launching the twice-exceptional young adult
It’s not as though there’s a handbook to this young adult stage of life, and even if there were, our G2e kids are never in those books so it wouldn’t help anyway.
Gifted & Twice-Exceptional
D is for Doubt
The doubts are loud, they are normal, and they lie. We, all of us parenting G2e kids, are doing the best we can with what we have at the time.
I’m not giving up
And then February finally ends and the last remaining spark of energetic hope that survived the winter somehow rekindles. This year’s spark is the dimmest in recent years, barely hanging on, a mere shadow of what it could be. February …
An open letter to my sons’ future partners
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 …
C is for Community
“If you decide to confide in others, you’ll discover you’re not alone.” I’ve had that line in my email signature for well over a decade. It describes why I write what I do, why people tell me I have an …
{2e Tuesday} Parenting G2e kids in the age of COVID
This new normal ain’t so normal and normal never was If there is thing I can be thankful for in today’s current flaming shitstorm hell vortex, it’s that the boys are older. Both teens, both with a decent head on …
{2e Tuesday} The Highly-Sensitive Person and Overexcitabilites: What’s the Overlap?
Many thanks to my friend and partner in crime, Kate Arms, for today’s guest post on highly sensitive people and overexcitabilities. These days I’m whipping between staring into space complete overwhelm and plowing through various projects, so I deeply appreciate …
Let Me Tell You About…Impostor Syndrome
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 …
{2e Tuesday} The Importance of Modeling
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 …