Category: Giftedness
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 […]
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 […]
How Giftedness, Personality, and Dabrowski Fit Together
Extremely gifted people differ from each other in many ways. What does this mean?What About Dating and Adolescent relationships? Adolescence is a difficult time for many 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 […]
5 – Ruf Estimates of Levels of Giftedness
Why the 5 Levels? The following information is a general summary of the Ruf Estimates of Levels of Giftedness. There is overlap in each of the levels, and inner qualities — qualities that can sometimes change over time due to environmental circumstances — are often the factors that make the difference among several Levels. For example, the degree of personal […]
