Featured Professionals for National Mental Health Month
By Niña Abonal, MA, Program Manager Each year during the month of May, organizations like National Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health America, raise awareness and highlight the importance of […]
Grit and Giftedness: Four Ways to Encourage Perseverance in Gifted Children
by Nicole Endacott, Program Assistant In today’s world, we’ve grown to expect nearly immediate results in every aspect of our lives. I, for one, have caught myself clicking repeatedly in […]
Perfectionism and Ways to Manage It
by Qiao Li, Coordinator The tendency to be a perfectionist is within all of us. As I start writing this blog, I find myself typing and deleting, starring at the […]
Overthinking: When Your Mind Won’t Turn Off
by Nicole LaChance, Marketing and Communications Coordinator Overthinking. The irony in writing about this topic is that I kept overthinking it. What direction should I take? What tips should I […]
Why Are So Many Gifted Children Also Highly Sensitive?
By Lisa Natcharian, Raising Wizards It’s a scientific fact that 20% of the population is born with a gene that allows them to “process sensory data much more deeply and thoroughly” than […]
Grief, Loss and Gifted
by Heather Boorman, LICSW, LCSW, and Co-Founder of The Fringy Bit Whether we believe it or not, Spring has sprung. Often, we think of new growth, new life, and renewal, but […]
A Basketball Center En Pointe and Parabolas on the Fairway
by Kate Duey, Certified College Consultant March Madness in almost here, making college basketball top-of-mind. And so I perked up at last week’s California Association for the Gifted Conference when […]
Intense Kids, Intense Parents — Tips for Managing the Mayhem
by Paula Prober, Licensed Counselor and Consultant How do you manage your emotions and your sensitivities while raising your super intense super smart children? How do you raise your children without unconsciously repeating […]
Two Ways to Empower Empathetic Children During Post-Election Season
by Jennifer de la Haye, Program Coordinator Many gifted children are profoundly empathetic and often feel helpless when they ponder the lives of homeless people, refugees, families who lack food […]
Quirks of the Gifted Brain
by Nicole LaChance, Marketing and Communications Coordinator The gifted brain is a unique place. In fact, it is so unique that many of the complexities of giftedness are still not […]