Parenting Gifted Children
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Gifted Education Important to Parents in Latest Monthly Poll
A poll reveals that gifted education is a significant concern for parents, highlighting the demand for tailored educational opportunities for gifted children.
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Helping Gifted Children Succeed
Raise or nurture an adaptive gifted child – one who functions well in their families, schools, and communities.
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Purple Goldfish Theory: What Your Child Already Knows
Post introduces the Purple Goldfish Theory, which emphasizes the importance of adding unique and memorable elements to engage and captivate gifted children.
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What happens to gifted children
Long-term outcomes and challenges faced by gifted children.
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How Parents' Expectations Affect their Gifted Child
How parental expectations can influence their children's academic performance and emotional well-being.
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Tips for parents of gifted children: What most parents wish they had known
Practical advice for parents of gifted children.
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Choosing Books for Gifted Readers
Guidance on selecting books for gifted readers.
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Getting Gifted Kids Outdoors
Offers tips for creating a summer of play for gifted children, suggesting activities and strategies.
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Family Tip Sheets
Collection of tip sheets for families of gifted children.
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How to find great summer activities for your gifted child
Finding enriching summer activities for gifted children.
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The wonderful but weighty challenges of parenting a gifted child
Discusses the significant and complex challenges of parenting a gifted child.
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What Gifted Kids Would Say
Insights into what gifted children might express about their educational experiences and needs.
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Gifted Women With Gifted Kids — Exhilarating or Exhausting?
Experiences of gifted women and gifted children, examining how their heightened abilities can impact their lives and well-being.
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Top 5 TEDTalks for Parents of Gifted Kids
Lists the top five TED Talks for parents of gifted children.
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How to Raise High-Achieving, Gifted Kids
Strategies for raising high-achieving, gifted children, focusing on fostering their strengths, supporting their needs, and encouraging their growth.
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Understanding High Energy Gifted Kids
Explains how high-energy gifted kids may display intense behavior, require more stimulation, and need tailored support to thrive.
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When your child is a gifted athlete
Challenges and considerations for parents of gifted athletes, including balancing support, expectations, and the child's well-being.
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Parenting With Impact Podcast
Offering advice and insights on parenting children with learning differences and other special needs.
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I Am Parenting An Extremely Gifted Child – Who Has No Friends
Provides advice for parents of extremely gifted children who struggle with making friends, offering strategies to help their child build social connections and navigate social challenges.
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30 tips for parents of gifted kids from parents of gifted kids
The article provides 30 practical tips from parents of gifted children to help other parents and educators support the unique needs of gifted kids.
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Boredom: A Real Challenge for Gifted Children & Their Parents
Addresses how boredom can be a significant challenge for gifted children and their parents, offering strategies to keep them engaged and motivated.
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Understanding Your Gifted Child
12 behavioral characteristics of the gifted child.
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How to raise a genius
Article discusses a study about how to nuture gifted children.
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The Extremely Opinionated Gift Guide for Elementary School Children
Offers a highly opinionated gift guide for various occasions, featuring a curated selection of recommendations and personal insights on choosing thoughtful and unique gifts.
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Gifts for Gifted Children
Selection of thoughtful gift ideas specifically tailored for gifted children.
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Should I grade-skip my gifted child?
explores the pros of grade skipping for gifted children, examining how it can impact their academic and social development.
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A Georgia Boy Started Reading At 6 Months Old. Now 12, He's In College
Like a lot of other 12-year-olds, Caleb Anderson of Marietta, Ga., loves outer space. "I'm fascinated that there's another world beyond ours. There's another place. There's a better place," he tells NPR. But unlike most kids his age, he's a sophomore in college, where he's studying calculus, U.S. history, humanities and macroeconomics.
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10-year-old college sophomore has bigger plans next fall
If we told you a 10-year-old feels at home in a high school precalculus class, you might be impressed.
But Elliott Tanner isn’t just keeping up with college-bound high school students. He’s tutoring them.
“I just take great pleasure in teaching people,” Elliott says.
Moments later, Elliott spins in a dizzying circle as 10-year-olds are prone to do.
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What most parents of gifted children wish they had known about college planning
Raising a gifted child is full of surprises. Emotional intensity, asynchronous development, and advocating within the schools, to name a few, become routine challenges most parents face. But just when you think you've got it figured out and life gets a little more predictable, college looms on the horizon.