“Arrggghhhh! I’m so stupid! I just can’t do this anymore!” Our little one was overwhelmed again, and frustration was oozing out of her tiny body with every breath. Before she grabbed her paper and ripped it, like I knew she wanted to, I calmly suggested she head to our calm down area to take a…
Inside: With intensities and strong wills, gifted family dynamics can be, well, tough. Try these tips to rock your family life and raise awesome gifted kids! We had the best seats in the theater. You know those iMax theaters that are huge draws in science centers around the country? It was the Omnimax at the…
She sat on the couch curled in a ball, sobbing. Again. I’m not even sure what it was this time, but I knew that she felt as if she was alone in the world because nobody liked her, understood her, or cared. And, because nothing I could say at that moment would change her thoughts,…
Holidays can be tougher than expected when parenting gifted or twice exceptional kiddos. I’ve written about intensity during the holidays, and hope to bring you other parents’ stories as well. Julie is here today to share her thoughts about parenting a twice-exceptional kiddo during the holidays… Parenting an autistic child is sometimes like parenting a typical child;…
As a teacher and academic working in gifted education, I have become sadly familiar with the cutting down to size of children who develop at a faster pace or attain higher levels of achievement than their age-peers. Perhaps these children offend our egalitarian principles and our sense of what is fit. Perhaps they threaten us…
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