If I’m Gifted, Why Am I so Thick?

This is a guest post, but the author chooses to remain anonymous. As a gifted adult, this resonates on so many levels. As a mother, raising a gifted child, I see this in my own daughter.  For reasons which will become clear later, I’ve been researching giftedness. I first developed an interest in the subject when I taught a kid who was on Ritalin, even though it was blatantly obvious to me that his problem was sheer boredom. His brain was so fast, neither his…

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Time to get out the holiday decorations

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.  I love the holiday season. There’s just something magical about Christmas. And one of the biggest parts of Christmas is the sights. The holiday decorations. Every year, I have big dreams of turning my home into something out of a magazine. To…

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Single Parent by choice: Why I have no regrets

I’m open about being a single parent. I divorced my ex husband in 2014, after years of domestic violence.  Leaving my marriage was not a hasty decision, but one I planned for 6 months. Ending it entirely took a year, and I left plenty of room for the process to stop…

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Update: 1 year old!

It’s been a whole year since my Summer Surprise arrived. This last year has been challenging, stretching and exhausting. But it’s also been fun, in many ways. When it all started… When I found out I was pregnant in the fall of 2016, to say I was shocked was an…

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The Comparison Game

Comparison can turn into a competition I was sitting beside another parent at my daughter’s swim lesson. We chatted briefly, and she mentioned she had 4 children, including twins. She smiled, like all moms of many do, and said that sometimes it was hard, but she loved it anyway. I…

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Special Needs: Assessment and a Developmental Pediatrician

Finally Taken Seriously: Getting a special needs assessment. She was almost 5 years old when we finally landed in a pediatrician’s office that seemed to actually take us seriously. I spent a good 30 minutes describing her history and what we’d tried so far, giving him copies of the reports…

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