So it’s been quite an interesting few days. Lots of online (and offline) conversations about gifted kids and parenting and the media and comediennes and poking…
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Dear Today Show: Thanks so much for perpetuating the stereotype of gifted kids as hot-housed children hyper-managed by over-competitive suburban helicopter parents. In a brief, throwaway segment…
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Sir Patrick did it best: http://youtu.be/Ju5VxyM3S4o I was really hoping to fly under the radar with this über-viral Ice Bucket Challenge. But alas,…
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Could your blog’s name subconsciously influence your life? When I first started writing this blog, lo those many years ago, it was under the name Never a Dull…
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Several hundred years ago, the truth was that the Earth was the center of the universe. Society knew this, it was the truth. When I was a…
25 Comments“Pick your battles.” Every mom has heard that piece of advice, starting from the very first time her precious snowflake uttered the word “NO!” with a…
14 CommentsYou keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Words matter. Words may be a clunky method of exchanging…
3 CommentsThis was the first year in all the years I’ve thrown children into the education system that I wasn’t dying to drop kick them out the…
4 CommentsUs and them. That’s actually the title of a back to school article in Chicago Parent, about “talking to your kids about special needs.” There are…
1 CommentI hate being patronized. Treated with a gentle smile and empty eyes and insincere words. It happens in only one area of my life, because as…
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