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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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A Parent’s Guide To Emotional Overexcitabilities In Gifted Children

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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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