Parenting and Teaching a Twice Exceptional Child
Whether your twice exceptional child homeschools or goes to a public or private school outside the house, parenting and teaching him or her is a challenge. Your kiddo is tough to understand, and the usual methods of parenting just don’t seem to apply. It’s okay –...![RLL #95: [Audioblog] When the World Overwhelms Your Anxious Child | How You Can Help](https://raisinglifelonglearners.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/rll-95-featured.jpg)
RLL #95: [Audioblog] When the World Overwhelms Your Anxious Child | How You Can Help
The truth is, anxious kids can get overwhelmed a lot. While current events seem especially dire, there will always be things happening that are hard for our anxious children to understand or even remain calm about. It’s our responsibility to give...
RLL #94: The Importance of Music with Jessica Peresta
Music and music education has been found to impact learning in so many ways. It engages nearly all areas of the brain at the same time, aids brain development and motor skills of younger children, strengthens language processing while relaxing the mind, lowering...
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Quit | Gifted Kids and Grit
We love playing family games in my house. Board games, trivia games, acting games – there is no limit to the games we enjoy, and our packed game closet shows it. Since there are five of us it isn’t always equal enough to split into two teams, so most of...
Help! My Gifted Child Is Worried All The Time
One of my most salient memories of elementary school is, unfortunately, a dark one. In the summer before fifth grade, I learned from TV news that a girl who attended my school had been killed, along with the rest of her family, by her mentally ill father. It was...Welcome!
Hi! I’m Colleen, gifted specialist, educational consultant, author, speaker, and homeschool mom of four gifted/twice-exceptional kids.
Grab a cup of coffee, some of that chocolate you’re hiding from the kids, and join me as I learn, experiment, and explore with my kiddos — and hopefully inspire you a little in your journey alongside smart, quirky, creative kids, too!
