Excessive gaming by gifted children often signals unmet academic, social, or emotional needs rather than addiction. Games offer clear feedback and mastery, so kids turn to them. Identifying underlying challenges lets adults foster growth, reduce reliance on games, set boundaries, and seek professional help when needed.
This article, drawn from a doctoral dissertation, examines Baby Boomers’ upbringing and how generational attitudes shaped gifted adults’ mental health, counseling uptake, and incidence of abuse. Using case studies, it discusses parental responses, counseling patterns, and implications for understanding gifted individuals across generations.
Notes from the 2022 SENG Annual Online Conference summarize key sessions on wellbeing, mentorship, mindfulness, social-emotional learning, diversity in gifted education, deep learning, and anxiety in gifted adults. Speakers and panels highlighted purpose, mentorship, inclusive practices, and strategies to support gifted and twice-exceptional learners and their communities.
Meditation can help twice-exceptional (2E) children manage stress, anxiety and emotional regulation. Research links meditation to improved self-esteem, reduced school-related stress, better coping skills, and symptom improvements in ADHD. World Meditation Day highlights these benefits and promotes meditation education for children and adults.
Co-produced World Hope Project connects gifted youth from around the globe to create videos addressing climate change, equity, mental health and community action. Virtual meetings foster collaboration, cultural exchange, and practical projects; the initiative inspires children and adults to adopt sustainable habits, advocate for change, and support youth-led solutions.
This article explores emotional challenges for musically talented children—boredom, perfectionism, performance anxiety, disappointment, social isolation and career uncertainty—and recommends family support, tailored instruction, ensemble participation, counseling when needed, and realistic guidance to sustain motivation and well-being.
Bright children may be more prone to anxiety due to intensified imagination, heightened emotional and sensory processing, and altered brain circuitry. Unrecognized anxiety can lead to physiological and behavioral symptoms, misdiagnosis, and chronic stress. Holistic interventions, CBT, mindfulness, exercise, sleep, and supportive parenting help reduce anxiety and build resilience.
Kate Bachtel argues that eco-literacy is essential to gifted development, urging educators to foster environmental connections, improve learning habitats, and address cultural climate. The essay highlights nature’s health benefits, sustainability practices, distributed leadership, and calls for moral responsibility to nurture ecosystems for youth and communities.
Study shows creative thinking engages three large-scale brain subnetworks — default mode, salience, and executive networks — which synchronize to produce divergent thinking. This coordination across multiple regions, rather than a left/right brain split, supports imagination, problem solving, and idea translation.
This post explains loving-kindness meditation: a practice cultivating kindness toward all experiences and beings. It guides a simple meditation—focusing on the heart, breathing, and sending intentions for safety, happiness, ease, and self-acceptance—then shifting those intentions toward oneself, with additional phrases and single-word mantras.
