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Thrice Exceptional: How to Encourage Twice Exceptional Girls

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Sophie Miller
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Production Coordinator at ThinkFun
Sophie Miller is a Production Coordinator for ThinkFun, a board game company where she helps to organize how games are made! She also contributes regularly to their blog. She is a recent graduate of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she majored in Creative Writing and minored in Black Studies and Art History. In her free time, she enjoys creating music and making fun crafts!
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Today, I’d like to welcome Sophie Miller. Sophie is a Production Coordinator for ThinkFun, one of our family’s favorite game companies! She is also a regular contributor to the ThinkFun blog. Today, Sophie is here to talk about twice exceptional girls. I’d love for you to weigh-in with your experience once you’ve finished reading! Thrice Exceptional:…

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When Your Child Is Academically Beyond You

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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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Fear Not: Homeschooling Tweens and Teens

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Jen Mackinnon
Owner at Practical, By Default
Hello, My name is Jen and I am the writing voice, blogger and coffee drinker behind Practical, By Default. I help working parents balance work and homeschooling by providing encouragement, support, and inspiration.

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Results of a recent reader survey indicated that folks are interested in hearing more from other homeschoolers, specifically those who are homeschooling tweens and teens. As a result, I am working on a series called Homeschool Voices: A Series of Personal Stories. This is the first post in the series. Today, I would like to…

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Big-Hearted and Brilliant: Service Ideas That Flex Empathy Muscles and Expand Young Minds

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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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I am over-the-moon excited to share today’s post with you. I think we can all agree that the world needs more kindness. As parents, we work hard to raise children who care for others. One way to build empathy is through family service projects. Today, I am thrilled to welcome back Sarah Aaland, Director of Doing…

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Understanding Asynchronous Development {Check me out over at RLL}

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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley
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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!

Be sure to check out our current course offerings. Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Kindred Collective. 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, and Instagram.
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Understanding Asynchronous Development There are so many definitions of giftedness floating around out there, but my favorite one is this definition from the Columbus Group: Giftedness is asynchronous development in which advanced cognitive abilities and heightened intensity combine to create inner experiences and awareness that are qualitatively different from the norm. This asynchrony increases with…

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