I expected homeschooling to be hard.
I expected the first year of homeschooling to be scary at times.
I expected to learn a lot about myself and about my son.
What I didn’t expect was to fall in love with homeschooling.
Nope, I Didn’t Help My Kids With Their Valentine’s Day Cards
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I am sharing a post that I wrote last year, when my children were 6-, 5-, and 3-years-old. It’s about Valentine’s Day and giftedness and parenting and judgment. Valentine’s Day 2012: When Leo was 3-years-old and in his first year of preschool, we sat down to make Valentine’s Day cards…
Gifted Achievement: Breaking Free of that Proverbial Box
Gifted. I used to be afraid of using the g-word. The word gifted conjures images of neatly wrapped packages. It implies that you have been given something, something that gives you a leg-up over others. Something better. But the thing is, gifted children are not better than their peers, they are just different. And just like other…
Educating Gifted Children: Learning to Let Go
When my oldest was struggling in kindergarten, we scrambled to find an answer. We searched for missing pieces that, once in place, would make everything… easier. After a few months in public school, our curious little guy’s smile had disappeared and we wanted our joyful learner back. We talked to the school, of course, but we did…
Academic Acceleration
Education can be such a funny little world. For example, we have all this research (you can read more here, here, and here) suggesting that retention is not all it’s cracked up to be. This is not new information and yet our schools retain kids all the time. At the same time, we have all this research…
Gifted? Let’s talk about it.
Gifted? Let’s talk about it. Let’s talk about the g-word: gifted. It’s an uncomfortable word, is it not? The word gift implies that the child has been given something extra, that they have a leg up over other children. It leaves out the concept of giftedness as asynchrony, which I believe is the key to changing the public’s understanding…
