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The Raising Lifelong Learners podcast helps parents — especially homeschooling parents — encourage their differently-wired kids to learn, explore passions, cultivate creativity, and become fascinated by the world around them. Join host Colleen Kessler — educational consultant, gifted specialist, author, and speaker — for interviews, audioblogs, tips, and encouragement to help your differently-wired kiddos become lifelong learners — children who know that they can find the answers to anything they want to know if they can just view their world with play, passion, and fascination.
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Anxiety vs. Stress vs. Perfectionism: Helping Our Children Cope
This new series is all about homeschooling a child with anxiety. Today, we kick it off with a discussion of the differences between stress and anxiety, as well as the impact of perfectionism on our gifted children. Anxiety is a topic that comes up often, especially when we’re raising neurodiverse, gifted and twice…
Navigating Summer Learning With Gifted And Twice Exceptional Kids
Summer is just around the corner. Navigating the summer months with your gifted and twice exceptional child can bring on a new level of challenges. These ideas can help. Are you a family who sticks with a more traditional homeschool schedule where you start in the fall, go all the way through spring, and…
Why Community Is So Important For Gifted And Twice Exceptional Kids
A strong community is important for homeschooled kids, especially if they’re gifted or twice exceptional. This is why it matters so much and how you can find the right community for your family. Thirteen years ago, when we first started homeschooling, we didn’t know any other families who homeschooled. There were a lot…
Perfectionism And Gifted Children: What You Need To Know
Gifted children often struggle with perfectionism. It can affect all aspects of their lives in significant ways and requires understanding on the part of parents and educators. Here is what you need to know about perfectionism and gifted children. The Link Between Anxiety And Perfectionism What is perfectionism? Is it anxiety? The answer is…
The Power Of Reading For Gifted Children: Advanced Readers And Social Emotional Learning
The power of reading and story for all children is undeniable. The power of reading for gifted children is extraordinary. Even if your gifted child is not an advanced reader, there is an important place for reading in social-emotional learning and development. All this month in The Learners Lab, we are focused on…
Homeschooling Our Gifted Children: The Power Of Artful Questions
We’ve been talking about this month about ways to to make our homeschooling experience exceptional for our gifted children. Today, our focus in inquiry based learning – how we use artful questions to help our children dynamically learn. Artful Questions And Interest-Led Learning Inquiry based learning is more than just asking your…