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Blog Hop: Forming Parent and other Gifted Groups
 Forming
gifted support groups, for young and old, for parents and
individuals...so many questions along the way. Why do we
need them? How do we form them? How can we maintain
them, and keep them positive and forward-thinking? Support
groups. They ARE all their cracked up to be! What groups
would YOU like to be a part of?
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops,
including
Gifted Relationships
and
Asking
for Help.
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 Age Integrated Gifted Discussion Groups by
Joy Navan, ongiftedelders
- In coming to understand her own giftedness, [my friend] recognized
giftedness in some of her elderly contacts and realized that they needed the
opportunity to interact with others who shared their interests and
intensities. Through participation in a gifted discussion group, they would
learn about their own strengths and needs and assist each other in
navigating elderhood as gifted individuals. While it is worthwhile to gather
gifted elders together and promote their relationships with like peers, I
choose here to share a different model, based on human history and
experience...
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The Value of Parent Support Groups by
Adventures of Hahn
Academy
- Whether your child is gifted, highly gifted, or 2E you have special
concerns and need more information. Parents of gifted children need help in
any of the following: finding the right services, advocating for gifted
programming, advocating for special education, understanding when
acceleration is needed, after schooling, homeschooling, university gifted
programs, talent searches, special programs, early college entrance, funding
sources, asynchronous development, over-excitabilities, handling
perfectionism or anxiety, and much more. Thus, many parents find it handy to
belong to a parent support group. Sadly, they are hard to find for parents
of the newly identified gifted...
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 One
Person Can Make a Difference by Jen,
repurposed
genealogy
- Most parents are like me, and want to provide their children with the
best educational opportunities possible. Sometimes, it requires facing your
fears to make sure that it happens.
You can make a difference by starting a parent group. Or maybe, you'll do
something more dramatic like ignoring the naysayer in your existing parent
group, and running for school board...
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Power in numbers: How gifted advocacy parent groups can help you and your
kids (Or how I went from perplexed parent to empowered advocate) by
Gail Post in
Gifted Challenges
- Then I stumbled upon a parent group that was starting. An affiliate
of PAGE, Pennsylvania's state-based gifted advocacy organization, this local
group formed to address problems within the district. Frustrated parents,
discouraged after years of witnessing the schools' watered-down gifted
programming, shared stories, concerns and eventually, strategic plans for
change.
The group offered support, information, validation, and shared energy, with
the overriding goal of improving gifted services...
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Dear Gifted Parent:
A Letter From An Educator by
Gift-Ed Connections
- Today I want to dedicate my post to you. I can't tell you what a privilege
it has been to work with you and your child for the majority of my teaching
career. The uniqueness of your child has often meant that we have had to
learn together about the many facets of giftedness and through that process
we've made a difference for the gifted students I have yet to meet...
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Reasons to Team Up: Special Education and Gifted Needs by
The Fissure
- Parenting a child with special needs or learning differences can be a
lonely job. Fortunately, in a parent group, you don’t have to be alone.
Special and gifted education partnerships don't just benefit your own child:
they create a community, they help teachers and schools, and they can
improve awareness and education for all children with differences...
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My World Changed Forever: The Importance of Parent Groups by Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley,
My Little Poppies
- I would argue that all moms and dads benefit from parent groups. Parent
groups help you to connect with others, to share a common bond. They become
part of your support network. Its members help you to realize you are never
alone.
And while I think parent groups are great for all parents, I think they are
essential for certain populations. Whenever you are part of a group that
differs from the norm, you are at risk for feeling isolated and lonely.
Families of gifted and twice-exceptional children are one such example...
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 Why
Join a Gifted Parent Group? by Colleen on
Raising Lifelong Learners
- There were so many things that stand out to me when I think back on having
my first baby boy – him locking his eyes on mine as he nursed moments after
his birth, holding his head up to see what was going on at just a week or
two old, staying up anytime someone else was awake just so he wouldn’t miss
anything, understanding and following simple directions by 6 months old.
And never, ever sleeping. To. This. Day...
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Academic Boosters Club (ABC) by Linda Wallin,
Living with Geniuses
- AS a young girl, I loved math. I was good in math as were all of my
family members. It wasn’t seen as something masculine or even special. It
was just a characteristic of our family. I did well in math until high
school. I took all of the math classes and got high grades in them, but the
math called for in Physics was too much for me. I couldn’t figure out which
formula to use in which situation. That was the end of my science classes.
In college, I took Calculus, but got sick and missed three weeks of classes.
My A dropped to a C, and I was place into Analytical Geometry. Since my
weakest skills are in visual-spatial orientation, I only got a C and changed
my major to German. Most of my life, I have regretted that decision...
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 What
Is That Thing Called Community? by
Planet Smarty Pants
- How Are Online Communities Different? For some people the allure of online
communities is about anonymity. They would rather share their challenges
with total strangers than listen to well-meaning advice from their friends
and family. For me, it's more about autonomy. I can join a conversation on
the topic that interests me and I can drop it whenever I want it if I don't
like where conversation is going. I also like "wisdom of the crowd" that can
be obtained from online communities. You will have a different conversation
in the community of people who love math or in the community of parents of
gifted children than you would have with your neighbors and even with
parents of other kids in your child's school. In other words, online
communities offer some sort of mutual "common ground" that I have not been
able to find in "real life" communities...
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To your herd you must go! by
Full Speed Ahead
- Everyone needs to be part of a herd. Everyone needs to be part of the sea.
The sea is where answers lie deep below, the sea is full of questions and
the sea moves slow.
Slow is where they can be if they ever learn how to drive fast at times. It
is how things are.
Non-conformists stand out, like a sore thumb...
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 Schoolyards
to Social Media: Supporting the Parents of Gifted Learners by
Ann Grahl, Supporting Gifted
Learners
- Comradery. The business of parenting isn’t always easy, particularly when
you’re parenting members of a population to which typical child-rearing
books and resources don’t apply. When you’re the parent of a gifted child,
you realize early on that, in order to find others who can truly relate to
your experiences, you have to do some searching—often while simultaneously
dodging accusations of elitism, zealous pride, or even an overactive
imagination (yeah right, your kid didn’t really start speaking at 5
months...).
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SMPGs: The Heart of SENG guest post by Kate Bachtel,
Hoagies' Nibbles and Bits
- “This group was SO badly needed for my family. Other families I know need
a group like this too, but this particular time did not work out. I wish
everyone with challenging gifted kids could attend this program!”
“I do not feel alone now.”
“I’ve learned to communicate better with my child, and it is working.”
“I honestly feel this group saved my family!”...
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Three Reasons to Join a Parent Support Group by
Institute for
Educational Advancement
- 3. Open and Informed Discussion
Parent groups are a place where parents of gifted and twice-exceptional
children can be open about their feelings and opinions with a group who
understands the special needs and issues surrounding gifted children. Where
else can you have such open conversations with parents who have been through
the same situations? Even as an observer of these meetings, I can see the
relief parents feel...
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December 01, 2020
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