This continues our overexcitabilities series for parents of gifted children. Today, the focus is on gifted children and emotional excitabilities. Emotional overexcitability is a term that comes from Kazimier Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration. There are five overexcitabilities — or OEs — each describing essentially a super sensitivity, a heightened characteristic, or intense…
This continues our overexcitabilities series for parents of gifted children. Today, we explore Imaginational Overexcitabilities and gifted children. What Are Imaginational Overexcitabilities? Imaginational Overexcitabilities are far more than simply imaginative play. This difference in cognition expresses itself in an unusually heightened and intense imagination. It is so intense that for some gifted children,…
This continues our overexcitabilities series for parents of gifted children. Today, we explore intellectual overexcitabilities and gifted children. Intellectual Overexcitabilities: What Are They? When the average person thinks about a “gifted child” intellectual overexcitabilities are usually what comes to mind. Intellectual overexcitabilities are characterized by intense and accelerated mental activity. This is not…
This continues our overexcitabilities series for parents of gifted children. Today, the focus is on gifted children and sensual excitabilities. What Are Sensual Overexcitabilities? Sensory overexcitabilities are relatively easy to understand, but not always easy to recognize in our children. Essentially, Its an intensity and heightened awareness of one or more of the…
Taking an eclectic approach to homeschooling when your child is gifted or twice exceptional makes sense. In fact, I believe it to be one of the best ways to engage and challenge a gifted learner. Here are all the reasons why. We are an eclectic homeschooling family. This makes it hard to describe…
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