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Don’t Start Gifted Boys in School Too Early
It Can Be Highly Problematic First, a reminder about reading my blog posts: The Gifted Through the Lifespan Substack is designed to acknowledge just that: giftedness shows up when we are born and until we die. Dementia and repressions (being female or a person of color, for example) and accidents of all sorts can make high intelligence […]
Does Early Genius Guarantee a Successful Life?
Why don’t all gifted children get rich or turn into emotionally healthy, high achieving adults? That was the question I had that motivated me not only to study giftedness but to answer as many questions as possible about how their early giftedness affected their adult lives. I’d done a retrospective longitudinal study with highly gifted […]
Some Families of Profoundly Gifted Kids Worked With and Around the Schools
Five more examples of participants during their school years in the longitudinal study Several Level Four and Five youngsters who lived in large metropolitan areas were able to attend the actual main campus universities for their post-secondary concurrent educations. Because they were still younger than most students, the environment provided good opportunities for interactions with […]
The Importance of Knowing Gifted Child and Parent Personality Types
Both gifted child and parent personalities matter hugely for how they see the school years. If the parents’ expectations fit those of their child, things go a lot better no matter what the schools do. When I wrote “Smart Kids, Personality Types & How They Adapt or Not to School” in 2004 I was still […]
Partly Hormonal and Another Part Ability Grouping—Yay!!!
After 6th grade, things got more interesting for this gifted girl! In a previous post, I talked about my early school years the post called How Author Background Affects What They Write. Here I am the summer before I became an 8th grader. About the time I was starting 7th grade, I was still acting somewhat serious and sane, […]
Behind the Pages: How My Story Shapes What I Write
A Candid Look at My Life, Lessons, and Where My Ideas Come From The picture below is of me when I was five years old. If you like old (vintage, classic) cars, you’ll try to guess the year. This is part of my background story. You see, it’s always been the case with me that […]
What Do I Want From My Life?
Thoughts shared by highly intelligent Baby Boomers when they were in their 40s and 50s during the 1990s My website and blog posts cover age ranges from birth to death. I tell you what I know (and what I think you would like to know, too) about the people I have worked with and interviewed […]
Is Early Reading a Sign of Giftedness?
Many gifted kids read before any lessons. Some highly, exceptionally, to profoundly gifted start by ages two to three. Some don’t read until later. Many gifted kids read before any lessons. Some highly, exceptionally, to profoundly gifted (Ruf Estimates of Levels Three, Four, and Five) start by ages two to three. A child might still […]
9 Cultivating Gifted Child Social Skills
Any Questions? Over the years I’ve taken on many different roles to stay connected with gifted children and their families. One such role was that of a volunteer position as Gifted Children Program Coordinator for American Mensa during for five years 2003-2008. I answered letters from parents of gifted children, and sometimes there were questions […]
Neurodiversity? Huh? What’s That?
… and how does it fit into the picture of giftedness? One of my roles in life has been to be the one who asks the questions others wanted to ask but who were hesitant to ask themselves for fear of looking stupid. So they didn’t ask and sometimes pretended not to have a question […]
