Our Top 5 Gifted and 2E Posts of 2014

Over time, I’ve learned to accept this 0-60 development as Leo’s modus operandi. So, while I found it completely fascinating that at age five Leo could tie both his shoes well -on the very first attempt- after watching me do it one time, I wasn’t totally floored. There was no guilt this time, only gratitude that he is ours and that we have the privilege of helping him become whoever he is destined to be.

Today we tackled glow bowling… Tomorrow it might be a movie theater!

Suddenly, Leo stopped painting and asked, “Hey Mum…. Do you ever get worried that there are just too many people on the earth building houses and using the planet’s stuff? Do you worry that we’re just going to run out of stuff and space? And that there’s gonna be no room for all the people and the animals? Like we already are seeing it? Like how the coyotes are in our backyard because there’s not enough space for them to just be?” And there it is… that proverbial apple and it is not far from its tree. He looks exactly like Schizz and, 99.9% of the time he acts just like Schizz, but every now and then there’s a little bit of me thrown in.Yes, bud. Yes, I do. I was unable to articulate it that well at your age, but I totally get it.

You’ve asked and here’s my answer, folks! Here are my top picks for gifted, 2E (twice exceptional), and homeschool resources. I recommend these gifted, 2E, and homeschool resources as a school psychologist and as the mother (and now homeschooler!) of a PG, 2E, and full of OE little guy.

Last May, Leo was still in the public school system. Like many parents of gifted children, Schizz and I struggled-unsuccessfully- to get his needs met. At our final, terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad meeting with the school, I found myself saying aloud what I’d previously kept to myself, “I wish that our local librarians could be here. They understand him. You all clearly do not.” We decided to homeschool later that afternoon.