New Year New You – 9 Steps to Achieving Your 2e Goals
Reflect on 2024 to plan a purposeful 2025. Embrace achievements, learn from challenges, and set realistic goals with actionable steps for a positive year ahead.
Twice Exceptional Ways to Anticipate and Adjust for the “Holiday Horribles”
Learn why the holidays can be tough for gifted and distractible people and how to ease challenges like sensory overload, transitions, and family dynamics.
When parents of 2e kids aren’t on the same parenting page
Parenting a 2e child is rewarding but tough. Learn how to overcome ‘good cop/bad cop’ dynamics and strengthen your partnership with better communication and support.
8 Strategies for Seasonal Transitions and Twice Exceptionality
Twice Exceptional people struggle with seasonal transitions. Learn 8 tips to manage SAD and emotional regulation as daylight fades, from light therapy to self-care
The Dangerous Diminishment of the Term “Gifted”
There is a movement afoot to substitute the term “advanced learner” for gifted. This is an attempt to “dumb down” a moniker that stands for way more than intellectual acumen […]
Collaborative Communication Skills on Behalf of 2e Learners
Since the Gifted and Distractible blog literally posts on National Teachers’ Day this year, I’d like to address the importance of, and how to communicate effectively between teachers and parents […]
Ignorance in Any Language Causes People to Suffer
Italy is known for culture and art (not to mention gelato and cannoli!). I recently had the opportunity to visit and present at an international conference while visiting the beautiful […]
Balancing Social Emotional Needs and the “Real World”
SEL or Social Emotional Learning are buzz words in today’s educational system and recommended as a focus in the home to encourage social success. Yet it is imperative that SEL […]
It’s Time To Listen
“Grown ups stink!” So said a thirteen-year-old highly gifted, emotionally overexcitable, empathic, creative, dysgraphic child to his parents. He’d been to a new school for about two-and-a-half weeks when he […]
Precocious Play and Undue Discipline
A 2e child’s brain gets him into trouble. Seeking sensory input, feeling anxious about a situation or environment, or responding to an unseen need, a 2e child’s behaves in a […]