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Hoagies' Blog Hop: Traveling with Gifted Friends
 Traveling with Gifted Kids. Traveling
with kids is always interesting. Traveling with gifted and
intense kids can be even more... interesting. Where to go? How
to integrate with other families? How to deal with OverExcitabilities while traveling, theirs and yours?
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops on related topics,
including
The
Gift of Free Time
and
Gifted
@Play.
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 Traveling the World with Intense
Children Just Make It Happen by
Kathleen Casper in One World
Gifted
- Our family used to not travel much at all. We had four kids under 12
years of age, and just enough income to manage to stay afloat without adding
the extra costs of travel. But then one of my friends took me by the hand
and made me stare into his eyes, as he told me to travel as often as
possible, and to just make it happen. That no matter what sacrifices I had
to make with the budget, I would regret not traveling while I was young
enough to enjoy it, and while the kids were home and able to come too...
-
 Helpful Tips
for Successful Trips with Your Gifted Child by
Matt Zakreski, School Counselor,
The Grayson School
- Traveling with a gifted child can be an exciting, immersive learning
experience that stimulates new passions and areas of interest. If your child
exhibits anxiety or excitability over the being in the car for a long time,
or with plane travel, or just not being in their comfort zone of a familiar
environment, it can be a challenge...
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 Traveling with Intense Kids by Catie,
My Little Poppies
- Traveling with intense kids is no small feat. One must tackle the
planning, and the packing, and the travel itself. Then, there is the
question of how to keep those intense children occupied and engaged while on
your trip. Of course, you'd also like for those children to sleep. And then
there is the aftermath. All good things must come to an end, and getting
back into the swing of things after a fun vacation can be a bit of a
challenge!...
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Road Trip! by Heather, The Fringy
Bit
- Having 2 therapists in the family, we tend to communicate with all of
Team Boorman above and beyond what is probably necessary. But, I do think
this is the NUMBER ONE TIP for traveling with your gifted kids: ASK THEM
WHAT THEY NEED AND WANT. Both in terms of the activities they want, and in
terms of the things they need to keep travel successful.
In an effort to demonstrate the efficacy of this, I’ve picked my kids’
brains to help with this post. So, from the mouths of a few fringy babes . .
. here’s what will help your next roadtrip with a gifted/2e kiddo be as
successful as possible...
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Travelling with gifted kids by
Life at Tiffany's
- Know when to walk away, and when to stick it out
I know, you paid all that money and came all this way. But sometimes, that
thing you thought would be oh so fun is really just too overstimulating and
loud and crowded. Sometimes, all of the preparations in the world can't
overcome those overexcitabilities. If at all possible, leave and come back.
Get some air, let little ears readjust, and take a deep breath. Take a
minute to talk it out logically...
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 The Coming of Age
of an Overexcitable Globetrotter by
Jessie in
CounterNarration
- Travel isn't easy for the overexcitable -- not when we're kids, and not
once we grow up. But the challenges my parents faced as they shepherded two
intense children through Europe would transform in later travels into the
type of dynamic energy that Kazimierz Dabrowski called the key to
personality development. There's nothing like the expat life to channel
overexcitability into growth!...
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Traveling with
Intense Children - It Can Be Done! by
Heather in Wonder Schooling
- We have 3 kids, two of whom have significant sensory sensitivities. We
also have family scattered across about 20,000 miles, so we end up
traveling. Long distances. With multiple children.
And it works. Some days are rougher than others. International flights with
nursing, stranger-anxious twins comes to mind. Being stuck in traffic going
through Staten Island with an inconsolable 8 month old also comes to mind --
as well as moments like when the contents of the sweet potato pouch squirted
all over the stranger next to us on the plane. (Sorry!)....
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 How to have your best family vacation ever by Jen Campbell,
repurposed
genealogy
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Put your own oxygen mask on first
It doesn't matter what it takes to help you have a better day, but it's
important that you, as a parent start your day right on a family vacation.
It is especially important if you aren't a morning person. (I'm not either,
so I feel ya.) Last summer, to put on my oxygen mask first, I was done
running by 6:30 am to shower, and get ready during our California
vacation...
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Traveling With The Quirky by
Adventures of Hahn
Academy
- Traveling is a necessity since we live in TX and our immediate family
lives in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Hawaii with friends and extended family living
in many other states and countries. Despite having food allergies and
sensitivities in the family combined with 2 family members being
overthinkers, we still travel. In fact, traveling is part of our
homeschooling and road schooling philosophy.
Roadschooling is literally homeschooling or learning on the road. And, we
are notorious for doing that...
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Updated
December 01, 2020
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