My evening with Ben
Sometimes you just need to get out and go heave a sledgehammer into someone’s wall. And last Wednesday night I got to do just that. I know you’re jealous. I’ve known Kim Moldovsky for several years, which is an eternity …
Book review: 101 School Success Tools for Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities
You know how sometimes you just really, really, want a time machine? Go back to fix that oopsie, to pass on that delightful foot-in-mouth entree, that “wish I’d said THAT” incident? Yeah, I keep looking for A From The Future …
Giving up normal
It’s been an intense ten years of parenting. That one sentence is up for Bloggy Understatement of the Decade. Ten years of worry to nearly the point of an ulcer (but bonus! when your stomach hurts, you don’t eat, and …
No rest for the weary
And on the seventh day, God rested looked at his calendar for the upcoming days and thought, “Crap, I need to prep for the week. That flood ain’t gonna rise by itself, I’m behind on my smiting, and the prayers are …
THAT parent
If you have taught youth sports or band or anything involving youngun+activity, you know THAT parent. The one who has a less than healthy interest in their precious snookums’ participation in the activity (think Toddlers and Tiaras, but with less …
No wrong way to be gifted
As I was idly scrolling through Facebook this morning, as I tend to do as I suck down the remaining dregs of that life-giving brew, a post from 2e Newsletter came across my feed: QUOTE OF THE WEEK. “These children …
Parents of gifted children speak out!
I have long felt that parents of gifted kids, especially of twice-exceptional kids, need more support than they are getting. Unless they live that particular life, few parents know how tough it can be. “You have little to worry about, …
Zombie blogger
It’s Morning of the Living Dead Zombie Blogger! She writes big, well-received post on twice-exceptional kids, then falls into Zombieland courtesy of a cross-country Move From Hell And Really, It Was And Still Is That Bad. Someday she will look …
Road trip brain drain
It’s Day Two of National Parenting Gifted Children week, so don’t forget to go around and check out some of the other writers participating in the blog tour. I’d link ’em up for you, but I’m somewhere on Interstate 80 …