Best of Gifted Challenges

The following is a list of popular posts grouped by topic. 

I have written hundreds of blog posts; those listed below are some of the most read posts. I hope that they are helpful. Thanks for taking the time to read them!

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Advocacy and Educational Options

Why aren't you advocating for your gifted child?

Let's get real about gifted kids

Why differentiated instruction fails gifted children

25 signs your gifted child is misunderstood at school

Intelligence denied: When gifted children's abilities are ignored

Power in numbers: How gifted advocacy parent groups can help you and your kids

When gifted students feel disconnected from school

Ability grouping works - and is essential in middle school and beyond

One of the greatest barriers to gifted education

When gifted children are not identified as gifted

Three essential tips for teachers of gifted children

What schools could learn from chess

Back to school blues: Why gifted teens dread returning to school

Six tips for communicating with your gifted child's teacher

Making it safe to be smart

What is so threatening about academic acceleration?

Motivational concerns

Boredom, school, and the gifted child: Challenging its inevitability

Giftedness and the growth mindset: Lessons from music and sports

Ten reasons why your gifted child procrastinates

Underachievers-under-the-radar: How seemingly successful gifted students fall short of their potential

Who is the gifted underachiever? Four types of underachievement in gifted children

How to help your underachieving gifted child

Supporting musically talented children: Challenging social and emotional roadblocks to success

Understanding, explaining, and identifying giftedness

What to say to your gifted child...about being gifted

Don't wait to get your gifted child tested!

How to explain IQ testing to your gifted child

Choices exclude: The existential burden of multipotentiality

Are all gifted children early readers?

Your child is gifted! Now what?

Planning ahead

What most parents of gifted children wish they knew about college planning

Five tips gifted students need to consider when choosing a college

Ten college planning tips: What families of gifted children need to know

When gifted kids get to exhale

Choose wisely: Some truths about elite colleges for gifted students

What keeps women from STEM careers?

Social Concerns 

Is your gifted teen socially isolated?

Tips for helping your socially isolated gifted teen

Where can I find a friend? How asynchronous development affects relationships

How school policy affects gifted children's friendships (and what you can do about it)

Difficult passage: Gifted girls in middle school

Get your gifted boy through middle school

Emotional Concerns

Gifted overthinkers: What makes them tick

When is it more than giftedness? A psychologist's perspective

Supporting your emotionally excitable gifted child

What's so bad about intensity?

Gifted children and adults: When is therapy helpful?

Do gifted children struggle with anxiety?

Why do smart girls develop eating disorders?

The interface of anxiety, overthinking, and shame among gifted children and teens

A gifted person's guide to therapy

Parenting and Gifted Adults

Tips for parents of gifted children: What most parents wish they had known

Gifted adults: Embracing intensity

How to discipline your gifted child

Guilty thoughts: What parents of gifted children really think

Welcome to gifted parenting: A checklist of emotions

Are you pressuring your child too much?

Gifted adults and relationships: Ten sources of conflict

What many parents wish the "experts" knew about giftedness

Weathering rough times: The highs and lows of raising a gifted child

When your gifted child disappoints

How not to shame a gifted child