Last year the tour ran over national gifted children week, which is right when the SENG conference was. Then, at the last minute, SENG went ahead and did a blog tour too. So there were two tours going on, and it looked like this one was stepping on their toes. So it seemed like a good idea to move it up a month and not look like we were trying to compete.

Oh man. My new blog is still all messed up, but here's my post on third grade reading level on up. I hope that helps.

I had to add, that as a result of this thread (and the Resolved2Worship blog) I looked up ATI/Gothard. Whoa! I'm an Afterschooler, not a homeschooler, so I'm totally ignorant about things like that. I didn't even know what "Quiverful" meant. Has anyone seen the bb/forum "freejinger"? It's interesting what they post about the WTM!

:) Thank you! Emails coming.

We never ended up doing Brainology. Right around when I was planning to sign up, I found out that I had just missed a super amazing deal on in from Homebuyer's Coop. Then I totally flaked and forgot about the idea until you mentioned it just now! :)

And that's called grace, courage and inspiration all rolled into one!

Yes. I've read it. My favorite quote is "This is hard; this is fun." We say that all the time. I have a bunch more thoughts about the book here on my blog, in case anyone is interested.

I have a promo up, but please give me 24 more hours. I'm going to email our state gifted ed advocacy group to see if they are interested in writing something. Also, Aly had a great post last year too. I'll email a final draft to participants tomorrow.

Okay, I am seriously losing my mind. One should not try to organize a blog tour and make dinner at the same time! I can see that Aly isn't on this list yet. Am I missing anyone else? Did everyone get an email from me? If not, please email me at teaching my baby to read at gmail dot com. Tomorrow, I'll send out the final draft plus the blog tour logo. Then everyone can post the announcement. After that, the only thing blog tour participants need to do is write their post and publish it the night before. On June 14th Sceleratus Classical Academy will kick off our tour with “Comparison is the Thief of Joy.†On June 15th Only Passionate Curiosity will share “Maturity vs. Ability; It’s a Big Dealâ€. Childhood Inspired will write about “Nurturing Other Aspects of Giftedness Besides Academicsâ€. On June 16th Teaching My Baby to Read will feature “Harry Potter, Muggles, Mudbloods, and Giftedness in Family Treesâ€. On June 17th Homeschooling: or Who’s Ever Home will write about “Nurturing Musical Talent in the Gifted Child On June 18th Strader Spiel will discuss “Homeschooling a Gifted Child with Special Needsâ€and The Washington Collation of Gifted Education will share “I’m an Advocate and So Are Youâ€. On June 19th Northwoods Classical Academy will write about “The Making of a Mathleteâ€. On June 20th Homeschooling Hatters will share “Just Let Him Be a Kidâ€, and Sceleratus Classical Academy will end our tour with a guest post titled “When a Flower Bloomsâ€.

Sassenach, I understand what you are saying 100%. I used to live in Menlo Park and that's just how it was. You went to your doctor and expected him/her to have gone to Prestigous University X,Y or Z. Now here where I live in WA, the best university most people have gone to is the University of WA. It's sooooooo different.

Has anyone seen this? Race to Nowhere I'm curious what other people think. My thoughts were that it was a bit elitist, and talking to the maybe 2% of students who really are studying seven hours a night trying to get into Harvard. But maybe I'm off base? I'd also love for somebody from Oakland to chime in with their thoughts about $. Those houses they were showing... 2 million? 3 million? Private school for three kids in Oakland... 20k each kid?

I can help you too Winter. I think my topic is going to be "Harry Potter, Muggles, Mudbloods, and Giftedness in Family Trees". I haven't had time to write anything yet because it took so much effort to move from blog.com to WordPress. Now my stats are all messed up too! It took two years to build up to 200 hits a day, and now I'm back down to the 70s. But at least everything transferred. Here's the 2012 blog tour link, now back up and running on my new blog: http://teachingmybabytoread.com/2012/07/08/parenting-the-gifted-blogtour-2012/

Okay guys, I think I'm ready to get this going. Bloggers, please email me at teachingmybabytoread at gmail dot com so that I can create an email list and send you the jpeg of our logo. It's not too late to join the tour btw!

Just checking in... I'm still going to organize the blog tour, but right now I'm migrating my blog from blog.com to Wordpress. Eeek! http://teachingmybabytoread.com/ Blog.com was down for almost a whole week, all over the world. :(

That would be great Care. Welcome aboard! Sorry my blog is down so the original link won't work at the moment. ALL of blog.com is down! I should have started out blogging a couple of years ago on another platform. Now I'm too lazy to switch.... Ugh.

I forgot to add, if you have a particular day you want, please speak up! Any more bloggers want to join us?

My site is down...again. I think it's a blog.com problem. They usually fix it soon. In more exciting news, Quark has fresheded up our logo and it looks really great. Thank you Quark! I'll email it to all of the blog tour participants along with our official announcement, once that's ready.

Sounds like a good post! I look forward to Donna's post too.

Last year some other WTM folks and I created the 2012 Parenting the Gifted Blog Tour. It was really a great experience. Bloggers weren't the only people who contributed either. A non-blogger came up with our logo, and lots of people chimed in with ideas about what to write about. I would love to do this again but will need some help. We need bloggers! A 2013 logo? Should we just rewrite the old one? Not a blogger but still want to write something? We're open to guest posts. Help spreading the word... Once the blog tour starts rolling you can help by sharing it on your FB page etc. More details: The dates for this year's blog tour will be June 14th - June 21st. Participants usually post a blog tour announcement a few weeks ahead of time (maybe June 1st?). Then, the night before their assigned day, they put up their post. I need at least one blogger to share thoughts from the WTM, Classical Homeschooling, Classical Afterschooling, or a nice shout-out to SWB and JW. (Because I love them, and because we'll use board space to organize all of this.)

Okay this is total self-promotion on part, but if you (like me) have had it up to here with your daughter's princess obsession, then maybe this will make you smile: Who wants to eat princesses anyway?

:( You know what I would do? I'd write a letter to the editor of your local paper. Go ahead and name the store.

You might like the Parenting the Gifted Blog tour some other members and I put together last year.

I have a Pinterest board about Creative Handwriting Solutions that might help. You are describing my DS last fall. Now his handwriting is average. I'm thrilled!

This seems like an appropriate place to chime in again on why you shouldn't listen to Doug Wilson. It's because of a lot of the same issues being discussed on this thread.

I would say no. My guess (as a former teacher) is that you are already marked as "a problem parent". I think you should stay low-key and friendly. Anything else is going to make you look intense. That's probably what they are saying about you in the teacher's lounge already. Edited to add: I'm not trying to be mean! I'm in your corner!