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Great post. I loved seeing the number spread and how it changed over time. Very encouraging to those of us with younger kids who have a similar (60+ pt.) spread. The comments about the asychrony being what you want really resonated with me too. I hadn't thought about it that way. Thanks for participating! Maybe next year once your kids are in school full-time, we can persuade you to blog more about your homeschool experiences. :D

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I've been reading them everyday when I'm posting. It's like an awesome overview of gifted issues. They should totally be pasted togeather into a pamphlet for people new to the idea of giftedness. I've put all of them in a notebook page because they're so cool. I've been emailing them to family members who, while they weren't raised with the term "giftedness" and all the research about it, were accelerated and had educationally accelerated family members. After all the research is revealing gifted issues that already existed, not creating them.

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If you're not reading them all this next one is by Aimee Yermish- bookmark worthy

http://davincilearning.wordpress.com/

 

http://teachagiftedkid.com/2012/07/14/are-we-doing-enough-for-our-newly-identified-gifted-childs-parent/

(why gifted folks should think about giftedness)

 

http://www.dvacademy.org/blog/dva-blog/2012/july/why-is-my-gifted-child-so-anxious-all-the-time.aspx

 

http://teachingmybabytoread.blog.com/ will feature two guest posts: "Grade Acceleration" and "The Financial Hardship that Sometimes Comes With Educating Your Gifted Child".

 

And....that's All Folks... That wraps up the 2012 Gifted Parenting Blog Tours

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Up! I'll read it again in the morning, since I'm sure I missed something in my late-night wrap up! I also need to hotlink all of my resources. Urg.

 

http://dancing-with-dragons.blogspot.com/2012/07/teaching-visual-spatial-learner-when.html

 

 

The title is coming up for me Izumi, but the rest of your blog is blank. :confused: Maybe we have crashed your site for the moment. That happens to my blog all the time.:glare:

 

The guest post from Icounou fell through, so I wrote something up called Welcome to "Cruising".

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I just go to the blog itself

http://dancing-with-dragons.blogspot.com/

and it's right there.

 

But when I click on the side http://dancing-with-dragons.blogspot.com/2012/07/teaching-visual-spatial-learner-when.html yes, I do still see the whole blog post like normal.

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:confused::confused::confused: I have no idea what could be going on. It's already got comments on it, too, so I know it's visible to some people.

 

It's visible to me. I'm using Firefox. And I just tried it with Safari and that worked too.

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I just realized something. You know I was going to post one blog post for this tour & one blog post for the other. I posted the one about "the red tape getting a good education" but the one I had planned for this tour "worrying too much and overanylising mother hood", I thought I posted it... But I didn't.

 

I was at the library with a toddler and a kid, although the kid was quietly on the computer, because I was visiting my MIL who does not have Internet service and I could not do the blog post on my phone. I realized I had triple posted the other post, but I did not realize this post had not taken. Like I said I was trying to cut, paste, and publish my post quickly in the library while my toddler was still behaving.

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Worrying, Over-analysis, and Parenting your Gifted Child

 

 

There's a big difference between doing the right thing for your child and saying the right thing about your child in public. People prefer people who say the right things.

 

At the library crafts and kids lunch the other day, I showed my son how to open the milk carton, saying, "Let me show you how. You're going to have to know how to do this when you start school in a few months.“ All the while I was worrying that the grandmother across from me might think I'm a helicopter mom for not letting my son learn that at school.

 

In the children's section of the library I wanted to preview Sir Cumference and the Dragons of Pi which my son is not ready for yet. While browsing the math section, I found the Math Monster Series by Weekly Reader which is math fiction written for the kinder through second grade crowd. I was so excited I immediately told the librarian, "I found early reader math stories that are fiction!" At that point I realized it sounded like I was bragging that my son is an early reader, when that wasn’t my intention at all. What I thought I was saying was, "Look! There are living math books written at the early elementary reading level!!!"

 

I wouldn't have had these doubtful thoughts about how I come across, if I had never read parenting and educational forums and learned that parents of gifted children are often judged for simply being honest about their child’s abilities. It might be an odd manifestation of imposter syndrome, but I worry about being the grown up version of "nobody likes a know-it-allâ€.

 

I feel like I know what my kids need, at least what's within my means to offer them. But if I lose myself 110% into overanalyzing every trivial bit of my parenting experience, then I’ll find a million wrong ways to be mother. It’s really hard to make the worst decisions with the best intentions, so why do mothers like me worry too much?

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