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Why “Good Fit” Matters for Both Gifted Adults and Gifted Children
It’s About the Sense of Belonging, Learning, and Well-Being Every child knows the difference between simply being placed in a classroom and truly feeling at home there. For gifted children, that difference can shape not only how much they learn, but also whether they feel understood, connected, and free to be themselves. “Good fit” in […]
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 […]
More About IQ Scores: How to interpret ability testing in context
I previously wrote about what an IQ score can and can’t tell you and I followed that up with a bit more background on ability testing. Here is another step to help you understand your own and your children’s testing on standardized tests over the years. Different ability tests have different scales or ranges of […]
Giftedness Across Borders: Why People Emigrate, Immigrate, and Migrate for Opportunity
First, why am I writing about this? I’ve addressed the topic of the “relativity of giftedness” in my blog posts and two of my published books (the ones from 2023 and 2024). I also cover the reality that not all gifted — even the profoundly gifted — get good grades in school. And yet, most people think grades are […]
