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Gifted Voices: A Series of Personal Stories

By Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley 2 Comments

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Gifted Voices: A Series of Personal Stories
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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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  • Gifted Homeschool Curriculum Choices {4th, 5th, and 7th grade} - June 7, 2020
  • Stuck at Home? A Throwback Summer Can Help! - May 23, 2020
  • A Summer Idea List for A Surreal Summer 2020 - May 23, 2020

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

By Sarah Aadland 4 Comments

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Four Life Lessons to Help Your Big-Hearted Idealist Avoid Burnout
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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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  • Four Life Lessons to Help Your Big-Hearted Idealist Avoid Burnout - December 1, 2016
  • Big-Hearted and Brilliant: Service Ideas That Flex Empathy Muscles and Expand Young Minds - October 17, 2016
  • Big-Hearted Families™ Summer Bucket List {Guest Post} - May 11, 2015

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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Do you have a savvy kiddo? Me too. Keep one step ahead of your child with these kindness-infused ideas.
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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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  • Gifted Homeschool Curriculum Choices {4th, 5th, and 7th grade} - June 7, 2020
  • Stuck at Home? A Throwback Summer Can Help! - May 23, 2020
  • A Summer Idea List for A Surreal Summer 2020 - May 23, 2020

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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Make a Difference Join #KindPoppyProject Raising Poppies parenting gifted twice-exceptional children The World in the hands of our childrens
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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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  • Gifted Homeschool Curriculum Choices {4th, 5th, and 7th grade} - June 7, 2020
  • Stuck at Home? A Throwback Summer Can Help! - May 23, 2020
  • A Summer Idea List for A Surreal Summer 2020 - May 23, 2020

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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Social Media Overwhelm & Sensitive Souls

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Social Media Overwhelm & Sensitive Souls (Or, the healing power of crunching pine cones)
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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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  • Gifted Homeschool Curriculum Choices {4th, 5th, and 7th grade} - June 7, 2020
  • Stuck at Home? A Throwback Summer Can Help! - May 23, 2020
  • A Summer Idea List for A Surreal Summer 2020 - May 23, 2020

I want to talk about social media overwhelm because, oh my word what a week this has been! I’m not going to talk about the election, but I will say this: social media is hard right now. It’s not a happy place to be, and it can leave you feeling pretty crummy. Social Media Overwhelm &…

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Election Anxiety and Sensitive Kids

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Political Panic: Navigating Election Anxiety with Sensitive Children | My Little Poppies
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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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  • Gifted Homeschool Curriculum Choices {4th, 5th, and 7th grade} - June 7, 2020
  • Stuck at Home? A Throwback Summer Can Help! - May 23, 2020
  • A Summer Idea List for A Surreal Summer 2020 - May 23, 2020

The election is tomorrow and anxiety is at an all-time high, so high that the media has coined a new term: “election anxiety”. I do not wish to engage in heated political dialogue. This post is not for or against a particular candidate. I have struggled with whether or not to even publish it, but…

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