Gifted Children and the Limits of Age-Based Schools
Most pre-school and elementary schools aren’t ready for your gifted child’s needs. In this post, we look at one common reason behind why gifted children have fairly universal, inevitable problems in the typical kindergarten through 8th grade school setting. In this short post, we consider how most schools are set up and designed. In almost […]
Is It Dysgraphia—or Just a Reluctant Young Writer?
And with boys, in particular, they may not be developmentally ready to work with pencils A parent told me her son’s teacher suggested she look into dysgraphia because he avoided handwriting. Additionally, she wrote this: My son’s teacher has raised challenges with poor handwriting and creative writing (idea development and planning) so we are thinking […]