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Hoagies' Blog Hop: Balancing Boredom and Burnout
 Balancing
Boredom and Burnout. Gifted kids need variety and challenge, but
they need "down time," too. How does your family balance that fine
line between too many activities and not enough? Is there a magic
formula that works for you? How about in the classroom? How do you,
as a teacher, advise gifted kids to slow down and "smell the roses,"
rather than fill thier days with Academic Team, school play, choir,
band, orchestra, sports...?
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops on related topics,
including
Multipotentiality and
Summer Reading.
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Blog Hops for all our past and future topics.
Special thanks to Pamela S. Ryan for our striking Blog Hop graphics!
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Help your gifted child find work-play balance by
Gail Post in
Gifted Challenges
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Gifted children sometimes need to find their "work-life" balance as
well. They crave intellectual challenge and stimulation, but too
much activity can result in burn-out. How can parents recognize that
fine line between engagement and too much pressure. Finding
Work-Play Balance.
1. Remain attuned to your child...
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 Downtime
or Burnout? The Organizer's Dilemma by
Jessie in
CounterNarration
- This month's prompt specifically asks about balancing burnout and
boredom. This brought to mind a distinction that first occurred to me when I
was a kid: There's the kind of bored where you have nothing to do, and the
kind of bored where you have to do something you don't want to do.
Truth be told, I don't really understand what it means to have "nothing to
do..."
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Rationing
Learning - there CAN be too much of a good thing! by
Heather in WonderSchooling
- Sometime around when he turned five, we got to the point that he could
handle higher level non-fiction texts. The problem was that he could
actually "overload" on new information. His brain couldn't process and
synthesize that much at the same time, and so, like an overworked CPU on a
computer, we started having issues. More frequent meltdowns, the inability
to make eye contact, regression in social awareness and interactions.
What's one to do?
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 Managing
Structure, Pattern, Challenge and Rest in Intense Visual-Spatial Kids in
Oviyam
- My daughter thinks in patterns. It was evident from her earliest days that
she observed, formed patterns and made deductions. As a one-year old, she
saw a building from the parking lot, recognized it as the pediatrician’s
office and started crying – she knew that, and she knew it was time for
vaccinations. In her later toddler years, during a play class, while all
kids played with Maracas, she would go around to pick up several Maracas and
arrange them in a semi-circle pattern and sit beside observing them.
A need for structure is inherent in TG. Randomness or disorderliness or a
lack of variety and challenge in her activities very quickly percolates into
frustration...
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Boredom,
Burnout, and Balance by
Qiao Li, Institute for
Educational Advancement
- Gifted children often struggle with over-developing one aspect of self,
while overlooking the rest of who they are. As Dr. Michael Piechowski,
author of Mellow Out, They Say. If I Only Could. Intensities and
Sensitivities of the Young and Bright. eloquently stated, “… cognition
without an emotional sense to give it value, positive or negative, is
sterile. The passion for learning and mastery, so characteristic of the
gifted, is driven by a very powerful emotion: intense interest.”...
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 Annual
Culling by Heather, The Fringy
Bit
- I am about to lay out some ideas that might help to find the balance. I
need to make it perfectly clear that I have not yet mastered this skill.
Just last week my husband and I had our own annual culling. We physically
wrote down all the projects and duties and tasks that we’ve (well, mostly
I’ve) committed to and cross things out. It was painful. Because all the
things are good, and I get different pleasure and stimulation from all the
things. But, when I have all the things all the time I’m left with nothing
of me.
So, my first tip is to have an annual culling...
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Somewhere Between Boredom and Burnout by
Gift-Ed Connections
- So perhaps being bored, is not such a bad thing, especially when there are
options to consider. Sometimes the distractions can help us find our way but
I am always surprised where my and my children's thoughts will take us when
we get the chance to be bored and aren't burning out trying to keep
ourselves distracted. Summer is a great time to explore the balance between
the two and by the time it ends, we tend to get a better idea of what thing
will not only connect us to everything, but feed our soul and perhaps not
swallow us whole...
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 The
seesaw of boredom and burnout by Jen Merrill,
Laughing at Chaos
- Now burnout doesn't follow a school schedule as reliably as it once did.
Damn. At least then I could pencil in the recovery time. Now it hits
whenever my mental/physical/emotional energy hits an unexpected low, often
with little to no warning. I rarely know when burnout will send me flipping
into the pit. It's taken a toll on my health, and is why I'm becoming more
vocal about preventative self-care.
I wonder if those in the gifted community are more prone to this than
others...
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Boredom by
Adventures of Hahn
Academy
- Everyone experiences boredom at some point in their lives. But have you
wondered what boredom really means? Boredom has many synonyms: bore, boring,
ennui, tedium, apathy, unconcern, restlessness, dissatisfaction, dull,
monotony, lethargy, languor, blahs, doldrums, etc. There are many
definitions of boredom depending on what psychologist or doctor you talk
with. The dictionary definition is just “the state of being bored.” However,
one psychological definition of boredom is “the aversive experience of
wanting, but being unable to engage in satisfying activity.” And, based on
psychological research there are 5 types of boredom...
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Balance
isn't Everything by Linda Wallin,
Living with Geniuses
- Most people think of balance as being “all things in moderation” but the
balance for a gifted child may be going completely whole hog (as we say in
Illinois) into their latest passion. I was so relieved the first time I
heard it was okay to have a passion...
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 From
Boredom to Burnout by
Aurora Remember
- The thing is though, if we are not careful, the things we do to prevent
boredom can lead us to burn out - both mentally and physically.
As summer is upon us, I'm exploring ways to keep the balance between boredom
and not further burning ourselves out. Here are a few things I'm working on
as we move through the summer...
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December 01, 2020
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