Shoo fly don’t bother me
So with a slight whimper I sigh, lift my paper bag of banana peels high, and once more into the breach go I.
rants
Still here. Still advocating for gifted kids.
So it’s been quite an interesting few days. Lots of online (and offline) conversations about gifted kids and parenting and the media and comediennes and poking fun and what it all really means. It’s a conversation that’s been had before …
That time The Today Show mocked gifted kids
Dear Today Show: Thanks so much for perpetuating the stereotype of gifted kids as hot-housed children hyper-managed by over-competitive suburban helicopter parents. In a brief, throwaway segment during this morning’s interview of Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, you managed to make it even tougher for …
There’s a hole in my (ice) bucket
Sir Patrick did it best: http://youtu.be/Ju5VxyM3S4o I was really hoping to fly under the radar with this über-viral Ice Bucket Challenge. But alas, I was nominated twice this weekend. Such is social media. I’m not going to …
What’s in a blog name?
Could your blog’s name subconsciously influence your life? When I first started writing this blog, lo those many years ago, it was under the name Never a Dull Moment. Made sense. I had a four year old and a one year old …
Momastery, yours is an incomplete truth
Several hundred years ago, the truth was that the Earth was the center of the universe. Society knew this, it was the truth. When I was a child, the truth was that Pluto was a planet. Society knew this, it was the …
When everything is a battle, which ones do you choose?
“Pick your battles.” Every mom has heard that piece of advice, starting from the very first time her precious snowflake uttered the word “NO!” with a vehemence not to be believed, in a volume rivaling that of an F-16, with …
Seth Godin, please stop using the word gifted
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Words matter. Words may be a clunky method of exchanging thoughts and ideas with others, but it’s the best and most efficient manner of …
Back to school, back to learning?
This was the first year in all the years I’ve thrown children into the education system that I wasn’t dying to drop kick them out the door to school. Summer ended far too quickly this year, and I didn’t want …
Start with compassion
Us and them. That’s actually the title of a back to school article in Chicago Parent, about “talking to your kids about special needs.” There are so many things wrong with that title I don’t even know where to start. …