RLL #96: Finding Learning Opportunities with Dennis DeNoia
Our quirky kids become happier and more willing learners when they are allowed to pursue their own interests beyond any academic requirements. Today, Colleen speaks with extraordinary math instructor and friend, Dennis DeNoia of Mr. D Math, about seeing learning...
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 them...
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,...
RLL #93: 7 Tips and Strategies for Boosting Emotional Resilience in Your Kids
Resilience is the learned ability to "bounce back" from stress, adversity, failure, challenges, or sometimes even trauma. Our kids need to develop resilience as they grow, because it is an important skill they will draw on as adults. Listen today as Colleen...
RLL #92: Building Self and Setting Goals with Suki Wessling
These quirky gifted or 2e kids of ours are often "square pegs in round holes" everywhere they go, not just in school. Bringing them home helps them to thrive in their own way and often a self-directed, child-led homeschool approach helps them to discover who they...
RLL #91: [Audioblog] How to Help Your Kids Thrive When They Are Stuck Inside
Whether it is the weather or illness or unusual circumstances that keeps us close to home, there will be times when our kiddos will be stuck in the house. And while we don't think it's best for parents to be the source of "24 hour a day entertainment," every family...
RLL #90: Cultivating Creative Writers with Celeste Davidson
Many of our brilliant and out-of-the-box quirky kids have vivid imaginations, and are true storytellers with the desire to create fantastic tales of their own. We can help these take shape by encouraging our kids to create their stories and by giving them...
RLL #89: Helping Our Gifted Kids With Social and Emotional Struggles
Around here, we define "differently-wired kiddos" as either gifted (higher than average intelligence) or 2e, meaning some neurodiversity in addition to being gifted. With higher ability and processing come social and emotional challenges; in other words,...
RLL #88: Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Kids with Jim Delisle
This week, Colleen has a conversation on the social and emotional needs of gifted children with Jim Delisle, her graduate school mentor and one of the nation's foremost experts on raising and teaching gifted children. Jim Delisle is an accomplished...
RLL #87: [Audioblog] 100 Hints That Your Child Might Be Gifted
Even experts can't really agree on a concrete definition of giftedness, but as parents, we have a pretty good idea just from watching our kids. Some of their behavior is puzzling, their reactions can be downright confusing, but they are all gifted, all...
