Parenting Gifted Children

  • 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.

  • Helping Gifted Children Succeed

    Raise or nurture an adaptive gifted child – one who functions well in their families, schools, and communities.

  • 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.

  • What happens to gifted children

    Long-term outcomes and challenges faced by gifted children.

  • How Parents' Expectations Affect their Gifted Child

    How parental expectations can influence their children's academic performance and emotional well-being.

  • Tips for parents of gifted children: What most parents wish they had known

    Practical advice for parents of gifted children.

  • Choosing Books for Gifted Readers

    Guidance on selecting books for gifted readers.

  • Getting Gifted Kids Outdoors

    Offers tips for creating a summer of play for gifted children, suggesting activities and strategies.

  • Family Tip Sheets

    Collection of tip sheets for families of gifted children.

  • How to find great summer activities for your gifted child

    Finding enriching summer activities for gifted children.

  • The wonderful but weighty challenges of parenting a gifted child

    Discusses the significant and complex challenges of parenting a gifted child.

  • What Gifted Kids Would Say

    Insights into what gifted children might express about their educational experiences and needs.

  • 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.

  • Top 5 TEDTalks for Parents of Gifted Kids

    Lists the top five TED Talks for parents of gifted children.

  • 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.

  • Understanding High Energy Gifted Kids

    Explains how high-energy gifted kids may display intense behavior, require more stimulation, and need tailored support to thrive.

  • 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.

  • Parenting With Impact Podcast

    Offering advice and insights on parenting children with learning differences and other special needs.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Understanding Your Gifted Child

    12 behavioral characteristics of the gifted child.

  • How to raise a genius

    Article discusses a study about how to nuture gifted children.

  • 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.

  • Gifts for Gifted Children

    Selection of thoughtful gift ideas specifically tailored for gifted children.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.