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…
where wildly different is perfectly normal
Category: Gifted & Twice-Exceptional
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
Intensity is something I am intimately familiar with, in so many different respects. In music, it’s something I struggle to get my students to do. It’s…
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…
There are some posts here on Laughing at Chaos that are really hard for me to read. I start with a few words and suddenly…