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.
This short guided mindful-breath practice outlines a simple three-part exercise to bring awareness to the present moment. Steps guide posture, breath awareness, body scanning, tracking inhalation and exhalation, counted breathing, and reopening awareness. It can be done anywhere and repeated as needed.
The author reflects on the 2016 election’s impact, describing anxiety among gifted students and the broader resilience of American communities. He urges parents and educators to guide children through political outcomes, explain the electoral process, encourage civic engagement, and teach respectful dialogue across differences.
This post advises adults supporting gifted sexual- and gender-minority youth after public anti-LGBT traumas: encourage emotional expression, recognize dual individual and group trauma, offer LGBT-specific information and positive activities, and channel youth compassion into supportive action such as alliances, advocacy, and community engagement.
After violent events, children can be deeply affected by media and simulated violence, leading to fear, desensitization, and long-term health effects. Parents should manage their own anxiety, limit exposure, answer questions at the child’s level, reassure safety, and encourage constructive actions to help children cope.
This article explains how trauma affects gifted youth, describing symptoms, diagnostic challenges, and physiological impacts. It recommends trauma-informed identification, supportive learning environments, sensory accommodations, calming strategies, and collaboration with mental health professionals to support healing and assessment of students’ abilities.
An educator reflects on youth-led social justice actions—from a personal high school walkout to historic protests like Barbara Johns, Hector Pieterson, Malala, and the Children’s Crusade—arguing gifted young people often show intense moral conviction and can drive lasting community and societal change when supported.
Melinda Stewart argues that when overwhelming emotions defy words, they often manifest as behaviors—writer’s block, self-harm, refusal, selective mutism, disordered eating, compulsions, or substance use. She urges understanding these actions as expressions of uncontainable feeling and translating and containing the voice of the heart.
Gifted children often experience intense, early fears and anxieties because of heightened sensitivity and advanced understanding without life experience. Parents should validate feelings, maintain calm perspective, limit alarming media exposure, provide factual context, prepare practically for emergencies, and encourage helping behaviors to build resilience and coping skills.
Gifted children often feel intense, early fears and anxieties because their advanced understanding outpaces experience. Parents should validate feelings without dismissing them, offer perspective through information and preparation, limit distressing exposure, and foster helping behaviors so children build resilience and efficacy.
