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7 Case Studies of Moral and Personal Growth in Gifted Adults at Midlife through a Dąbrowski Lens
A short summary of the case study results Kazimierz Dąbrowski was a Polish psychologist, psychiatrist and physician. He is known for his theory of “positive disintegration” as a mechanism in personality development. I first learned about it in the early 1990s and included an examination of it in my doctoral dissertation, Environmental, familial, and personal […]
Your child is clearly gifted, if not brilliant: Will the school agree and be happy to see you?
The answer isn’t straightforward because gifted services vary by state and by district and few states have gifted services requirements. During the 1980s, ability grouping and tracking fell out of favor.[i] Americans educated prior to the early 1980’s cannot easily understand how radical a shift this has been.[ii] For more information on the origins of […]
Gifted Baby Boomers: How They Were Raised, and How They Raised You
… and how it might still be affecting you, your parenting, and your relationships This article is about the generations before you. If you are currently raising gifted children in 2026, you are probably from the Millenial, X, or Z generations. Some readers here are Baby Boomers, and this article can open your eyes as […]
Am I an Intelligent Woman?
How Would I know? The answer depends on whom you ask and at what time in her life. I had many assumptions about my future when I was a student at Ohio Wesleyan: I’d become an elementary school teacher, I’d marry and have children, and I’d become a school principal while raising my family. My […]
Downsizing My Digital Footprint!
In order to focus on writing, I am downsizing my digital footprint to reduce the number of platforms where my writing will be shared. In addition to publishing print and digital books, I will continue to post on Substack and on Medium, and I invite you to keep in touch there!
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Exceptionally Gifted Students in Their School Years – Part 1 of 5
Introduction to Level Three Longitudinal Study Results for 9 Exceptionally Gifted Youngsters Level Three — Exceptionally Gifted — individuals are all in the 99th percentile of the intellectual continuum. So are Levels Four and Five. But you will see more and more differences between each Level as we move through that continuum. Being at the 99th percentile intellectually in […]
When ACES Aren’t a Good Thing
Adverse Childhood Experiences can derail even the most gifted children Aces. In many card games, aces are tricky because — in some card games — the ace can count as a high value card and/or a low value card. My father taught my brothers and me how to play Black Jack when we very young. According to AI on […]
The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up: a Longitudinal Study
I want to put an end to a waste of talent and ability that not only hurts individuals but limits all of us. I’m a High Intelligence Specialist. Literally. Some people write for fame and profit; I write to share my own hard won wisdom and give people access to their real selves and their […]
Exceptionally to Profoundly Gifted – Part 1 – An Introduction
Level Four – The Outliers In the previous three series, I focused on parent and child dynamics for study subjects from the first three Levels of Gifted and referred to those subjects as the conventionally gifted because almost everyone has met and gone to school with some members of those three Levels. The needs of such children […]