After talking to my husband last night, we decided that we’d compromise and ask C to eat one good bite of his dinner before having breakfast. While this felta lot to me like caving, the idea of having C to go school on an empty stomach was just too much. He’s having enough issues at school [...]
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I know it’s normal for kids to push their boundaries and as I mentioned yesterday, gifted kids are known to be particularly manipulative. These factors together are probably a large part of my current dilemma. C has been increasingly picky, about everything it seems, but food in particular. C has always wanted things his way, and what [...] The SENG webinar about living in a gifted family was tonight. It was the first I’ve participated in, though I’ve found a lot of good information on their website and have been curious about their webinars. All in all, I’d say I’m not sure I’d participate in another. It’s not that it wasn’t good, but the [...] I recently saw an ad for a website that proclaims it can help your child do better on gifted testing. It brought to mind something I was told about maybe a year ago by a former coworker. She said that the area where she used to live had such highly competitive private schools that parents often [...] C’s teacher has finally agreed to allow us to send in some alternative work in place of the usual math drills that he has been increasingly refusing to do. This is a total 180 from the school’s stance even a week ago and a complete surprise. The school’s previous position had been that they were doing [...] In Pennsylvania, teachers aren’t required to take courses on gifted education to become certified. As such, most teachers in PA have little or no formal training in meeting the needs of gifted students. Also, while there is a separate certification in PA for special education (i.e. learning disabilities), there is no certification for gifted education. From [...] SENG has a webinar coming up on Tuesday about living in a gifted family. It runs about an hour and a half and costs $40. I had been procrastinating about signing up, mostly due to the cost, but finally gave in. It will be $40 well spent if it gives me any insights and strategies to make things run smoother at home. [...] I think normal must be a relative term in most contexts. Everyone’s normal is often apt to be different. For example, my sister has twin girls. To her, parenting twins is normal. She has nothing else to compare it to after all. For me, normal has been raising a gifted child. Being overly focused on his [...] I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately through C’s cyber school to support their lobbyingto keep cyber school funding at present levels. Apparantly the senate education committee is looking at cutting cyber school funding due to their lower costs of operation. The Philadelphia Inquirer had an article about it last month. Cyber schools are pushing parents to [...] I think at times society loses track of what’s really important. We get so caught up in the process that we forget about the end product. For example, C’s teacher insists he does all of the math drills whether he needs them or not. She says it’s required work. To her it’s all about the process. I [...] |
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