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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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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 offers 7 practical tips and strategies for boosting emotional resilience in your kids,…
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 truly are and what they want to learn. In…
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 can use some help finding…
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 the tools to be successful. In this episode, Colleen speaks with…
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, quirky kids do quirky things! Today, Colleen discusses some of the specific social and emotional needs our gifted kiddos…
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 author of numerous books and has been a professor, teacher and speaker on behalf…