by Colleen Kessler | Feb 26, 2021 | Family, Giftedness and Intensity
Admit it, you’ve thought about it. You see your precious little one handling blocks with expert dexterity. Your heart swells as they garble through their ABCs. Your pride and joy is walking already or handles math problems with ease and you wonder, Could my...
by Podcast Team | Feb 24, 2021 | Family, Giftedness and Intensity, Homeschool, Podcast, self-directed learning
I truly believe that the best way we can educate our gifted and twice-exceptional (2E) kids is through homeschooling with self-directed learning and unschooling. Self-Directed Learning vs. Unschooling? Self-directed learning is a self-motivated pursuit of...
by Colleen Kessler | Feb 20, 2021 | Family, Giftedness and Intensity
“Boy is he an EXTREME thinker! If he actually took the time to sit and focus on his work, he could accomplish anything…” As helpful and positive as his preschool teacher thought she was being, words like this can set some of our most...
by Podcast Team | Feb 17, 2021 | Family, Giftedness and Intensity, Podcast
Did you just know that your child was gifted from the start? You know, that feeling down deep in your gut that something was different about your tiny tot, but you weren’t able to completely pinpoint it? Or maybe you went straight to a search engine...
by Colleen Kessler | Feb 16, 2021 | Giftedness and Intensity, Homeschool
It started out an easy, relaxed conversation, and then the mom at the library asked me the question I most dread answering… “What curriculum do you use with your kids?” I always stammer and then feel like a deer caught in the headlights. I mean, how...
by Podcast Team | Feb 10, 2021 | Family, Giftedness and Intensity, Podcast
Parenting our neurodiverse kiddos, whether gifted or twice-exceptional kiddos (including autistic and ADHD), is just plain different. Typical parenting books and practices won’t always work when we’re trying to find ways to help our children become the...