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When Your Child Is Academically Beyond You

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Shawna Wingert
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Shawna Wingert

Owner at Not the Former Things
Shawna Wingert writes about motherhood, special needs and the beauty of everyday messes at www.nottheformerthings.com. She is an accidental author, a passionate speaker and has been a part of special needs discussions on Today.com, Autism Speaks, The Mighty, For Every Mom, Simple Homeschool, and The Huffington Post. She has written two books - Everyday Autism and Special Education at Home. Shawna lives in Southern California with her voice actor husband and two awesome sons.
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Today, I’d like to welcome one of my favorite people, Shawna Wingert. Shawna is an amazing homeschool mama to two outside-of-the-box learners. I connected with Shawna early on in our homeschool journey and I am so thankful I did! I love her honesty, her openness, and her love for her boys. I am over-the-moon excited…

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The 5 Best Homeschooling Decisions We’ve Made

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Lucinda Leo

Owner at Laugh, Love, Learn & Navigating By Joy
Lucinda Leo homeschools her gifted daughter and 2e son in England. She blogs about parenting differently-wired kids at Laugh, Love, Learn and about homeschooling at Navigating By Joy.
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Today, I am thrilled to welcome Lucinda Leo. I first “met” Lucinda through the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum blogger community. I am a huge fan of her work and I honest-to-goodness wish she didn’t live all the way across the pond because I know we’d have a lot to chat about over a cup of coffee……

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Gifted Voices: A Series of Personal Stories

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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley

Cait is a school psychologist, mom to three amazing children, and an unexpected homeschooler. She loves nature, good books, board games, strong coffee, and dancing in her kitchen. Cait believes homeschooling *can* be almost all fun and games!

Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Raising Poppies, a community for parents of gifted and twice-exceptional children. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.

Cait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, Scary Mommy, GeekMom, and many others. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram
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Parenting a gifted or twice-exceptional (2e) child can feel like a lonely venture. Parents of gifted children often feel like they cannot discuss their child’s giftedness due to the many misperceptions associated with the “gifted” label. The word “gifted” conjures images of beautifully wrapped presents with neatly tied bows. These images are a stark contrast…

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Four Life Lessons to Help Your Big-Hearted Idealist Avoid Burnout

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Sarah Aadland

Director of Doing Good Together's Big-Hearted Families Program at Doing Good Together
Sarah is striving to make family volunteering a meaningful habit for her three animal-loving, social-justice-seeking, mud-pie-making kiddos. As Director of DGT's Big-Hearted Families™ Program, she creates resources for families that want to develop a kindness practice at home. For her own family and for participants in the Big-Hearted Families Membership Circle, Sarah has watched family volunteering create empowered kids, more connected families, and stronger communities. In addition to her children, Sarah tends a large garden, a small flock of chickens, and a habit of mindfulness amid the necessary rituals of parenting.

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When I heard that this month’s Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page blog hop was about child activists, I immediately thought of Sarah Aaland, Director of Doing Good Together’s Big-Hearted Families™ Program. Sarah has shared family service ideas on My Little Poppies before, and today she is back to talk about how to support the big-hearted idealists in…

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Savvy Kid? Check Out These Elf on the Shelf Alternatives

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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley

Cait is a school psychologist, mom to three amazing children, and an unexpected homeschooler. She loves nature, good books, board games, strong coffee, and dancing in her kitchen. Cait believes homeschooling *can* be almost all fun and games!

Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Raising Poppies, a community for parents of gifted and twice-exceptional children. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.

Cait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, Scary Mommy, GeekMom, and many others. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram
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Let’s chat Elf on the Shelf alternatives, shall we? I always say that I want to savor every last drop of childhood magic. I am well-aware that childhood is fleeting. It’s gone in a blink. And, sometimes, when you are the parent of a gifted child, it’s gone even faster.  Oh, the questioning! The questions floor me, and they’ve…

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Make a Difference Through the #KindPoppyProject

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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley

Cait is a school psychologist, mom to three amazing children, and an unexpected homeschooler. She loves nature, good books, board games, strong coffee, and dancing in her kitchen. Cait believes homeschooling *can* be almost all fun and games!

Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Raising Poppies, a community for parents of gifted and twice-exceptional children. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.

Cait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, Scary Mommy, GeekMom, and many others. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram
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The past week has been a challenging one for many. As we have discussed here on the site, and in Raising Poppies, gifted children feel more. These children have big emotions and they are in-tune with the world around them. Many poppies are empaths; they can feel the emotions of those around them, as if…

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