Parenting a gifted or twice-exceptional child can be a challenge. I wouldn’t change our journey for the world, but parenting and educating our PG/2E son has been one of our life’s greatest challenges. I have learned so much from him and I always tell folks that he is my wisest teacher.
If you are new to the gifted/2E parenting journey, welcome! Hang on to your hat, because you are in for one wild ride! Today, I’m sharing some of my favorite gifted resources and I hope that they help you on this journey.
40+ Sites To Bookmark if Your Child is Gifted
Here are some of my absolute favorite gifted sites, from web pages to support groups, to blogs written by parents and educators. I am hoping I didn’t miss anyone. Feel free to add your favorites in the comments so that we can grow our communities!
Recommended Websites:
I am eternally grateful for the following websites. They were instrumental early on, when we were first learning about giftedness, but they continue to be sources of resources and comfort.
- Davidson Institute
- Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
- Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page
- National Association of Gifted Children
- PG Retreat
- Raising Poppies
- SENG
- The TAGFAM Project: Families of Talented and Gifted
Gifted Blogs:
Parenting and educating gifted children can be a lonely venture. I always say to my gifted friends, “What did folks do before the internet!?” Thankfully, nowadays we have a gifted world right at our fingertips! Here are some of my favorite gifted blogs.
- My Little Poppies
- Atlas Educational
- Crushing Tall Poppies
- Eclectic Homeschooling
- Empowering Parents To Teach
- Everyday Learning
- Gifted Challenges
- Gifted Parenting Support
- Gifted Unschooling
- Gluten-Free Mum
- Great Peace Academy
- Hoagies’ Nibbles and Bits
- Houseful of Chaos
- Incredible Journey of Giftedness
- Jade Ann Rivera
- Laughing at Chaos
- Life With Intensity
- Lemon Lime Adventures
- Our Journey Westward
- Planet Smarty Pants
- Raising Lifelong Learners
- Red, White, and Grew
- Sallie Borink Learning
- Sceleratus Classical Academy
- Sprite’s Site
- STEAM Powered Classroom
- Supporting Gifted Learners
- The Cardinal House
- The Learning Lab
- Through a Stronger Lens
- Unschool Rules
- Up Parenting Creek
- We Are All Mad Here: Homeschooling Hatters
- Wenda Sheard, J.D. Ph.D. Thoughts on Life and Learning
- Your Rainforest Mind
Readers favorite My Little Poppies Gifted/2E Posts:
Here are your favorite MLP posts on all things gifted and twice-exceptional. Did I miss one of your favorites here?
Wondering if your child is gifted/2e?
What do you think? Did I miss anyone? Share your favorite resource here!
Well, that will keep me busy for a while! 🙂 Thank you for sharing all these a great list-many resources I am not familiar with yet.
You’re welcome- I hope they help!
This is a fabulous list! Thanks for including my site on it, Cait! I would also add Lisa’s site, http://giftedparentingsupport.com/. So nice to have a place with so many of the great blogs and reference sites listed.
Oh my gosh, Gail! Thank you! Lisa’s WAS on there- she was one of the first ones I thought of. I am not sure what happened during the writing process?! I’ve added her back- thanks for mentioning it!
Thanks for the mention! Great list.
You’re welcome!
Thanks Cait (& Gail) for including Gifted Parenting Support! This is such a fantastic list of resources which I’ll be sure to include a link to in my upcoming presentation at the 2015 TAGT Annual Conference on resources for teachers to share with parents of gifted students.
Oh my gosh, Lisa! I’m so sorry yours wasn’t on there when this first published. Your site WAS on there, and I have the drafts to prove it, but something happened at some point along the way. I blame writing before proper caffeination and my post-motherhood noggin’! Thank you SO much for sharing this at TAGT. That means the world to me!
Would love to throw my hat in the ring! Have a look at my site, Raising Wizards, designed for parents raising gifted children. http://www.raisingwizards.com
Thanks!
Lisa
Thanks, Lisa! Looking forward to checking it out and learning from each other!
Thanks for including my blog, Caitie. This post is another great resource (among many from you) for anyone interested in gifted kids (and adults)!
You’re welcome!
Thanks for the great list :). I’m over in Aus and just thought I’d let you know about a website and Facebook page that I started about three or four years ago :). http://www.mermaidsandmermen.com.au It might be useful, especially for any Aussie readers :). Thank you!
Thank you, Kate!
This is a wonderful list of fantastic websites and blogs, Cait! We appreciate you mentioning the Davidson Institute and Genius Denied. Another blog to check out that is on our site is the Gifted Exchange: http://giftedexchange.blogspot.com/. Thank you for this great post!
Thank you so much, Mark!
This is a great list, Cait!
Thank you for including Sprite’s Site blog in your list. I also create a monthly newsletter which would mainly (but not only) interest Australian readers which can be read online at Gifted Resources website http://www.giftedresources.org/
Wonderful list of resources, Cait! If you think its addition would be useful, I’d love for you to add my http://www.supportinggiftedlearners.com website to this collection. Thanks! And, while I’m expressing appreciation, thank you so much for the many excellent blog posts you write. They are invaluable to those seeking support!
Done!! You should have been on there, so sorry!
Thank you so much! And I’ve added your site to the list of resources provided on mine!
Why is Hoagie’s crossed out?
And you forgot SENG: http://sengifted.org/
🙂
Hi Heather,
SENG is on there, a bit below Hoagies’. Thank you for letting me know about the link error (the cross out is a broken link). I’m not sure why that is happening but I will sort it out now!
Thanks so much for all the resources. I work with the gifted population as a psychotherapist and look forward to passing this forward. 🙂
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Hi Cait. What a great resource! As the parent of a 30-year-old gifted young man, I can tell you that this kind of resource would have been invaluable to me when my son was young. Unfortunately, the internet was still in its infancy back in the early 90s. I know parents of gifted kids truly appreciate your efforts – including this list. I don’t know how I missed it before, but I’m going to write about it and post a link to it on my Website – giftsforlearning.com. (Btw, it would be great if you could add my site to your list. I’m a bit behind in posting, thanks to some recent hacking, but I’m catching up!)
Thanks again for this great list. I love it!