Billie Holiday lied. It’s summertime, and the livin’ ain’t anywhere near easy.
Mom: The Human Tug Toy
To the People Who Witnessed Our Family Meltdown @ the Lincoln Memorial
Road Trip!
The Cost of Anti-Intellectualism: Being Doubted
The motivation and character of our gifted kids is often doubted and questioned. The motivation and character of us as parents of gifted kids is often doubted and questioned. And why are gifted kids and parents doubted? Because anti-intellectualism keeps us from talking about the multiple factors of giftedness.
When Will Our Girls Stop Surprising Us?
Whether we are talking about baseball or spelling bees or STEM, large segments of our society maintain archaic beliefs that girls are somehow less than, or can only be good at certain things. Our society continues to be surprised when a female shows gifted leadership abilities or chooses to study engineering or surpasses a male in any area other than the arts or “soft sciences”.
Everyone Shut Up! (aka What I REALLY Want for Mother’s Day)
We have never before parented our young amongst so much information and advice. It used to be the irritating next door neighbor or great aunt Mildred were the only advice givers, and we could choose to just avoid them. Now, we have article after article, website after website, giving us advice on how to successfully raise our kids. As far as I can tell, all that this information has done, is create anxious parents, not necessarily better parents.
Chronological Age Really Doesn't Matter
For some reason, we’ve grown accustomed to thinking that chronological age provides some sort of magical compass that imparts our children with direction and skills. In truth, however, I don’t know many neurotypical children who follow all the age criteria for development, and neurodiverse kiddos often aren’t even in the ballpark.
