As parents of gifted children prepare to send their children to school at the end of the summer months, they may ask themselves "Should I tell the teacher my child…
6 Things You Think You Understand About Gifted Kids But Don’t
Everyone knows about gifted kids, right? If you are the parent of a gifted child, you probably know more than most others do. After all, you have one at home…
Gifted Quiz – How Well Do You Know Gifted Kids?
So you think you know all about gifted kids? Test your knowledge by taking this little gifted quiz. It has 24 questions, but you'll get only 10 since not everyone…
Why Early Reading is a Sign of Giftedness
When my son began to read before he was 3 years old, I thought that he was a little different from the other kids I knew. When he was a…
Tough Questions With No Good Answers: What’s a parent to do?
People who are just starting their journey as the parent of a gifted child are usually full of questions. Two top questions asked by parents of gifted kids are "Is…
Celebrating Diversity – And the Gifted
As a species, humans are wonderfully diverse. That diversity should be celebrated, or at least that's what I hear all the time. But what exactly is diversity? According to the…
Why Gifted Kids Hate to Write – and What We Can Do About It
If there is one thing we know about gifted children and writing, it's that many of them don't like it. We might expect those who dislike writing to be the…
Gifted Kids Bill of Rights
I first saw Melissa Lingen's Gifted Kids Bill of Rights years and years ago when my son was young and frustrated in grade school. My first thought was that this document…