Davidson Gifted Blog
Tips for Taking Care of Yourself
Tips for Taking Care of Yourself How are you doing? What is life looking like for you right now? As a parent, raising a profoundly gifted or twice-exceptional child, during a pandemic, you’ve probably…
A Short Guide for Building an Independent Study Course
A Short Guide for Building an Independent Study Course (with an example included!) Gifted children are often interested in topics that aren’t typically offered in traditional school curriculums, or they may be ready to…
A Parent’s Perspective: Asynchronous Parenting
This article shares the first-hand experience of a parent of a profoundly gifted daughter and son. Anne Cronin describes her initial confusion and the lessons she has gleaned through her journey raising asynchronous gifted…
Tips for Parents: Positive Discipline for Gifted Children
This article is from a seminar hosted by Jane Nelson, who provides advice related to the positive discipline of gifted students. Author: Nelson, J. Organization: Davidson Institute Year: 2010 Participants were presented with four…
Tips for Students: Learning to Invent – How Math Invented a New Way to Control Pandemics
The following article shares highlights and insights from one of our Expert Series events, which are exclusive for Young Scholars and their parents. This talk introduced a surprisingly simple new method to control pandemics, using Game…
Friendship and the Gifted Child (and the Pandemic)
The following article shares highlights and insights from one of our Expert Series events, which are exclusive for Young Scholars and their parents. It can be hard not to worry about your gifted or 2e child’s…
Burnout in Gifted Children
Burnout in Gifted Children The term “burnout” has become increasingly commonplace in our daily lives – whether it is in reference to job burnout, care-taker burnout, and more recently, Covid-19 burnout. So, what is…
Radical Acceleration
This article is from a Young Scholar seminar hosted by Professor Miraca Gross, who delivers some informational tips on radical acceleration. Author: Gross, M. Organization: Davidson Institute for Talent Development Year: 2002 Radical acceleration…
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