Perhaps because our long trip to Maine went so smoothly, we actually dared to drive back last night in hopes the kids would sleep. Well, C would have probably slept for most or all of the ride, if Z would have let him. Little Z slept for the first couple hours and then started screaming to [...]
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I chose an interesting title for my post today, because it just seemed to fit. You see, the other day I had a strange conversation with my mother. She’s witnessed some of C’s meltdowns and always tries to analyze the reasons behind them as more than his just being overly emotional (emotional overexcitability) along with hungry, [...] Ok, I know there are tons of parents out there that pack their kids up in the car and drive all over with them starting from infancy, but I’m not one of those parents. Every year I groan about the 1 1/2 hour trip to relatives for Thanksgiving and panic about disrupting nap schedules. Being trapped [...] Maybe it’s because we waited too long to get an aquarium, or maybe we fed the fish too much or too little, or maybe we changed out too much or too little of its water too often or not often enough… but C’s goldfish passed away this morning while he was at camp. It was fine [...] Persistence is a word often used when describing gifted children, like when my two year old asked for months to learn how to play the violin. This post, though, is about parental persistence! I only have a year of experience working with schools as the parent of a gifted child, but also have roughly a decade [...] A few people have come to my blog looking for information about gifted cyber schools. While Stanford offers online courses through EPGY and Johns Hopkins offers similar programs through CTY, they aren’t full time programs, at least for younger students. EPGY does offer a full time online school for grades 7-12, which may be helpful to [...] I feel like I never stopped running today. Between shuttling C to camp and Z to the dentist, then a trip to a museum and a futile trip to the library (turns out it was closed), I feel like I never stopped moving today. Luckily the longest trip, to the Please Touch Museum, was with my [...] I mentioned in a previous post that C will be withdrawing from cyber school this summer. We’ve been working on finishing up the first grade curriculum and don’t have very much left. It certainly helps that there is a lot of material we can skip or quickly go through. When we started on spelling, I had [...] C was never much of one for puzzles, at least not the physical kind. I remember while in day care he was behind his age peers in working with puzzles (and scissors too). He’s gotten better with puzzles, but they’re just not his thing. His brother, on the other hand, loves puzzles. Putting things together and [...] C went to camp today and won a goldfish… not the crackers, but an actual living fish. Apparently someone at the camp thought it was a great idea to let the kids pick out goldfish as prizes without informing parents. So, of course, most kids jumped at the chance and streams of parents left in the [...] |
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