Practical strategies to reduce holiday stress for gifted families, including prioritizing events, planning and coordinating schedules, dividing tasks, saying no, maintaining diet and routine, and taking restorative days off. Emphasizes parental self-care as children mirror adult stress and establishing manageable traditions.
Practical guidance for selecting summer camps and activities for gifted children, including assessing family needs, securing child buy-in, choosing camp type and focus, advocating for appropriate placement or trials, and creating activities. Emphasizes including downtime and daily physical activity for balance and well-being.
Advice for parents and educators to guide gifted children’s internet use, balancing monitoring with teaching digital citizenship, privacy and trust. Discuss age-appropriate access, classroom modeling, and tools (filters, monitoring software, educational platforms). Emphasizes family-school partnership to build safe, responsible global learners.
The post argues that gifted people often lack practical common sense despite high intellect, relying on life’s margin of error. It suggests teaching and practicing caution, using repeated, gentle coaching, role-playing, and smaller social or safety rehearsals to build real-world awareness and reduce risky misunderstandings.
Explains how Māori whakatauki (proverbs) reflect cultural values and social expectations, illustrating meanings with several sayings. The post argues that understanding past perspectives and collective values—such as humility, shared success, and leadership—can inform contemporary views on giftedness and community roles across societies.
A top-ten list of summer activities for gifted children, including field trips, camps, virtual experiences, TED Talks, geocaching, science programs, and the SENG conference. The author thanks SENG Facebook members for contributions and offers practical, varied options to keep gifted kids engaged over summer.
This post advises parents and educators on guiding children’s social media use: understand platforms, protect privacy (disable geo-location), model respectful behavior, set rules like limiting contacts and sharing passwords, and use educational resources and curricula to teach digital citizenship and safe online practices.
The post recounts actress-inventor Hedy Lamarr’s (Hedwig Keisler) escape from Europe and her invention of frequency-hopping spread spectrum used in modern wireless communications, then discusses challenges gifted girls face and offers parental tips and encouragement for role models, independence, and father involvement.
This article presents 28 compassionate suggestions for supporting gifted children’s social and emotional needs, including honoring individuality, teaching mindfulness, encouraging passions, providing mentors, fostering social connections, avoiding comparisons, and promoting self-care. The list offers practical ways parents, educators, and communities can nurture gifted youths’ wellbeing.
An educator suggests ten resolutions for gifted children to foster strengths, creativity, curiosity, and resilience. Recommendations include valuing strengths, advocating for oneself, creating, reading broadly, seeking new experiences, embracing failure, pursuing interests, nurturing kindness, making time to play, and remembering that school isn’t everything.
