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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 and Learning: What You Need To Know
This continues our series, all about anxiety and atypical children. Today, we are talking specifically about the impact of anxiety on learning. Anxious kids are anxious kids all aspects of their lives, including learning. When it comes to work, homeschool, traditional school, private school, and anxiety, it can be hard to determine what…
Anxiety In Children: Physical, Emotional, and Behavioral Symptoms
This continues our new series, all about homeschooling a child with anxiety. Today, we discuss the physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms of anxiety in our children, as well as how we can help. Last week, we talked about the difference between stress, anxiety, and perfectionism, how they all feed into each other, and…
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…