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Resilience, Parenting, Siblings, and Gifted Adult Outcomes
Gifted children can turn into insecure, anxious and depressed gifted adults when sibling and other family interactions in childhood make them doubt their value and lovability. It doesn’t take much emotional abuse (bullying by a family member) for a gifted child to believe something is wrong with them, not the bully. In the book, which is […]
Does Being Smart Mean You Don’t Have Any Social Skills?
The issue of feeling normal or fitting easily into our environments so that we feel like we belong and are welcome, is a deep and pervasive issue for many highly intelligent, gifted, people of all ages. I have long been interested in what makes people feel like they don’t belong. This feeling of not quite […]
The Intense World of Gifted Women
Growing up — and showing up — as a gifted is usually filled with difficulties and pitfalls. Podcaster, Suki Wessling, focuses her work on the world of women. It was so long ago that she interviewed me for her podcast that I can’t remember exactly why she interviewed me, but she knew I’d written a […]
The Do’s and Don’ts for Teachers of Gifted Students
What every parent and teacher of gifted children should know. This advice is relevant for teachers at any grade level. And, if you’re the parent of a gifted child, feel free to share this with your child’s teacher(s). That said, here’s some of my advice after years of studying giftedness and what gifted school children […]
Same-Aged Classrooms for a Gifted Child … Really?
School is not real life; this doesn’t help with social skills Everyone knows … that the reason we put children in school by age for their instruction is that there are centuries of excellent research that proves this is the most effective way for children to learn, right? Well, no, actually, there is no such […]
What is Giftedness?
Do you ever wonder if you’d recognize it? This new book will help readers more fully understand what giftedness is and isn’t. I’m pleased to present a new book that will be published by 5LoG Press on October 24, 2024. How do we enable each gifted person to embark on a positive, authentic life trajectory […]
Inner Growth in Gifted Adults: How to Understand Viewpoints Based on Dąbrowski Levels
In this post we look at how the way your parents were raised and how they raised you might still be affecting you, your parenting, and your relationships. Dąbrowski’s theory came after your Baby Boomer relatives were already grown up. Before that, not many people got therapy. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t trying to […]
After 6th Grade, Things Got More Interesting!
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, and my grandfather commented happily that he was glad to see […]
A Heart-Felt Thank You!
Thanks for being a crucial part of our Substack journey, Crystal! Support like yours is the absolute backbone of my work! Paid subscribers allow me to dive deeper, dedicate more time, and create content that truly matters to our gifted community, and free subscribers and word-of-mouth referrals are an invaluable means for distributing that content […]
What Else Makes IQ Scores Hard to Count On?
What else makes IQ scores hard to count on? Different ability tests have different scales or ranges of scores. The ones you can take free online generally have a higher top score than the tests you can take individually with an assessment specialist or in school. You may have noticed that the test results tell […]