Parenting and Teaching a Twice Exceptional Child
Whether your twice exceptional child homeschools or goes to a public or private school outside the house, parenting and teaching him or her is a challenge. Your kiddo is tough to understand, and the usual methods of parenting just don’t seem to apply. It’s okay –...
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Quit | Gifted Kids and Grit
We love playing family games in my house. Board games, trivia games, acting games – there is no limit to the games we enjoy, and our packed game closet shows it. Since there are five of us it isn’t always equal enough to split into two teams, so most of...
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...
Getting Back to Homeschool After a Mental Health Crisis
We love differently-wired kids around here. We’re used to quirks and differences, square pegs and outliers. We understand that our little babies can deal with some very big things and we do everything we can to empathize and advocate for them. Sometimes we make...Welcome!
Hi! I’m Colleen, gifted specialist, educational consultant, author, speaker, and homeschool mom of four gifted/twice-exceptional kids.
Grab a cup of coffee, some of that chocolate you’re hiding from the kids, and join me as I learn, experiment, and explore with my kiddos — and hopefully inspire you a little in your journey alongside smart, quirky, creative kids, too!
