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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Imaginational Overexcitabilities: A Parent’s Guide For Gifted Children
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, […]
Intellectual Overexcitabilities And Your Gifted Child
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 […]
Gifted Children and Sensual Overexcitabilities: A Parent’s Guide
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 Your Gifted Child
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 […]
Psychomotor Overexcitabilities And Gifted Children: What You Need To Know
This continues our overexcitabilities series for parents of gifted children. Today, the focus is psychomotor excitabilities and gifted children. Gifted children with psychomotor overexcitabilities display extreme energy and activity levels. Due to heightened energy in the neuromuscular system, these kids seem like they never stop. They appear to move simply for the sake […]
The Importance Of Play For Your Entire Family
It’s easy to think of examples of how play helps young children and preschoolers. But what about older kids, teens, and even adults? The importance of play for your entire family is significant and the focus of our discussion today. The Power Of Play It’s likely that you already know how powerful play […]