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Hoagies' Blog Hop: Beyond Academics...
 Beyond Academics. What else do we need to teach them, other
than academics... at every age! Going to school? Going to
college? Can they do their own laundry? Balance their checking
account? Can they advocate for themselves with teachers and
professors? Do they know how to handle a credit card? There will
be plenty of offers, and plenty of kids get into trouble with
their first venture into personal credit.
What else do they need to learn? And how can we teach them??
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops,
including Child
Activists - Supporting Gifted Idealist Children!,
and The "G" Word.
To read all our past Blog Hops or join our next Blog Hop, visit
Blog Hops for our past and future topics.
Special thanks to Pamela S. Ryan for our striking Blog Hop graphics!
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Academics Are Important, But... by Linda Wallin,
Living with Geniuses
- Without such knowledge, most of us make mistakes in meeting our
children’s needs. I thought my first child would be happy rocking in an
infant seat while I canned food from the garden. Yeah, for about 10 minutes!
Trying to make the second to conform to expectations was not what I should
have done either. My third never experienced quiet times without business
because, well, third, but also I went back to work half time.
What would I teach them now?...
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 Built to Be Different, Raised to Thrive- Teaching wilderness skills to our
gifted kids by Ana Maria,
Gifted Culture Project
- It all starts with those inevitable and often frequent moments where
gifted kids stand alone in their way of being (feeling, moving, thinking)
and need to defend it, advocate for themselves, self-regulate, adapt, and
connect through it.
You see, gifted kids (and grownups) are built to be different. Yes, there’s
the whole ‘brain wiring is different’ thing, and the ‘different behaviors we
call excitabilities’ thing.
But there’s more than that...
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 What your gifted child won’t learn from academics by
Gail Post in
Gifted Challenges
- Gifted children benefit from the same social-emotional, and
non-cognitive skills as every other child. However, their heightened
sensitivities, asynchrony, frequent outlier social status, and tendency to
question everything complicate this task. They will scoff at rules or values
that do not make sense, hide their insecurities, and may be hampered by
their own tendencies toward overthinking, rigidity or existential
depression. While Tough suggests how schools can embed non-cognitive skills
throughout the educational culture, parents need not (and should not) rely
on schools for this to occur. Most of these skills can be taught at home...
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 Empowering the
Abstract-Intensive Child—and Her Future Adult by
Jessie in
CounterNarration
- How do we help young ideators learn to Do Their Thing effectively?
First, I'd teach them what it means to be "gifted" or "abstract-intense."
This is an essential starting point. Kids assume that they're in the program
because they're "smart." This is distorted, nebulous, and ultimately
useless. Many kids who are not in the program may well be extremely bright
and/or talented, in a way that's useful but isn't in line with the
particular emphasis of the gifted program. This supports what's true in the
statement "all children are gifted" and refutes what's false. It
demonstrates that not all kids will benefit from this program at the same
time it affirms that those other kids still may have great things to
contribute...
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 I Don't
Want My Kids To Be Happy by Heather, The Fringy
Bit
- My list seems unending:
How to shut doors
How to remember to bring shoes on a car trip
How to know when to stop talking and listen
How to sit still for longer than 5 seconds
How to express their fabulously wild ideas in ways us mere mortals will
understand
How to advocate without using the words, “This is stupid”
How to sit through a meeting without screaming from the slow pace and utter
mundanity
And the list goes on. But, I had to settle on something. For all the things
that I think our kids need to learn, I believe one of the most important is
To Not Want to be Happy...
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 Lessons
in Adulting by
Heather in WonderSchooling
- I have embarked on 3 Lessons in Adulting this year (and lots of sidebars
as well):
Lesson # 1: We all have tasks we don't enjoy
There are some chores I don't mind, like putting away the dishes or running
the vacuum, but I hate dusting. Part of it may have to do with my dust
allergy, but these insidious little particles that get everywhere drive me
nuts.
Yes, I'm teaching my kids to clean with good attitudes...
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Beyond Academics: What Else Our Children Need to Learn by
Adventures of Hahn
Academy
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Sometimes our children are singularly focused on only their interest.
This leaves them less well-rounded. Some schools stress only
academics, again leaving their students less well-round. Sadly, many
schools have eliminated or reduced educational opportunities for music, art,
home economics, and shop or trade classes. These leaves students
without learning some basic life skills that we learned while we were in
school. For some gifted children, their academic skills are so
advanced that they look inept in other skills...
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 Beyond Academics... What should we be teaching them at home? by Carolyn K.,
Hoagies' Nibbles and Bits
- Gifted kids will learn lots of academics... Maybe not the academics we'd
like them to, and maybe not "demonstrating" their abilities in the way the
schools want them to, but still, they will learn. But there are more than a
few things they won't learn in school, and really need to know by the time
they get to college and "adulting."
Some of these things are obvious, but perhaps get missed...
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| To read all our past Blog Hops or join our next Blog Hop, visit
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Special thanks to Pamela S. Ryan for our striking Blog Hop graphics!
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Updated
December 01, 2020
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