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College Debt and Gifted Students: Loan Wolves
How government post-secondary loans affects highly to profoundly gifted students I don’t know about you, but I quit reading — a long time ago — all the “fine print” before I agreed to most ridiculously long and confusing jargony rules from big companies and small. When I first watched this documentary in late 2022, I was shocked and appalled […]
Sex, Gender, and the Election — Part 1 of 3
A Sex and Gender Specialist Explains the Primal Reasons Behind the 2024 Election I first encountered Michael Gurian’s work in 2003. I started to buy copies of his book, What Could He Be Thinking? How a Man’s Mind Really Works so that I could both recommend it to my clients, the parents of gifted children, and sell […]
Highly Gifted Students in Their School Years — Part 1 of 5
Introduction to Level Two Longitudinal Study Results for 12 Highly Gifted Youngsters I worked directly with most of the families and individuals in this study. I administered and interpreted intelligence and achievement tests to most of the subjects in this study. Sometimes someone else had already done the testing and the families came to me […]
Why the Gifted Emigrate, Immigrate, or Migrate
Why Do So Many Gifted Adults and Families Come to the United States? If you’ve read my previous posts, you know I have addressed the topic of the “relativity of giftedness.” See my post Giftedness is Relative. I also cover the reality that not all gifted — even the profoundly gifted — get good grades in school. And yet, most […]
Moderately Gifted Children’s Early Adult Outcomes, Part 1
This blog explains it a bit about the journey — path — to adult outcomes. Two subjects are in this post and two more from Level One are in Part 2. They are Moderately Gifted. Remember that the giftedness levels are only one method that helps to share information — and address appropriate needs and […]
Independence and Relationship Issues in Intellectually Gifted Adolescents — Part 1
Adolescence is a difficult time for most people, and social and emotional issues are sometimes additionally exacerbated in the exceptionally or profoundly gifted adolescent when navigating friendship connections, romance, and greater independence in school and home. Many extremely intelligent young people have difficulty with making friends, feeling attractive to — and understanding — the opposite sex, and also dealing […]
Two of My Favorite Federal Agencies Are on the Chopping Block
What is The Federal Department of Health and Human Services? It is the sprawling agency responsible for administering millions of Americans’ health insurance, approving drugs and medical supplies, regulating food and responding to infectious-disease outbreaks. At this point in my life and career, I am in favor of centralized programs, information, and research that can […]
Elections Have Consequences … Even For Profoundly Gifted Children
My New Approach to Sharing Information About Educational Systems and Outcomes Going forward, I will share my research, my viewpoints, my previous writing and speaking topics, and I will juxtapose the information — as much as possible — with the history and laws of different educational policies and systems. I will also demonstrate how to […]
Supporting and Understanding Levels of Giftedness in Homeschooled Children
In this post, I share a tremendous resource, Colleen Kessler, for those of you who want to know more about giftedness. I’ve placed the link for her access to her podcasts at the end of the post. Colleen Kessler is a homeschooling parent, a podcaster, and she kindly invited me to be part of one of her podcasts. […]
What is “Good Fit” and Why Does It Matter?
“Good fit” in the context of school and social life means that people feel as though they belong. First, “good fit” in the context of school and social life means that the children feel as though they belong, that they are not outliers, or lonely, or weird compared to the others. Children who grow up feeling […]
