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Parenting Styles: My Son is Starting High School as a 12-Year-Old and I’m Not Scared at All

June 29 by Lara Lillibridge

  OK, maybe I’m a little scared, I can’t lie. But overall, I’m a lot more comfortable with the idea than I ever imagined I would be. I hadn’t planned on grade-skipping my son.  My son’s September birthday meant that he was already young for his grade.  Here in Ohio, the cut-off date for kindergarten varies by district—anywhere from August 15thto September 30th —so many kids in his class were already a full year older than him. But when we switched from a self-contained gifted school … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: acceleration, gifted kids, parenting, school

Parenting: The Gifted, the Talented, and the Hard Workers

September 24 by Jessica Timmons

Are gifted & accelerated programs the best choice for every child that qualifies? Great perspective here!

Image Credit: © Suzette - www.suzette.nu | found here | CC by 2.0  Jessica is with us today discussing, once again, how do we really give our kids the kind of childhood we want for them? I really love what she has to say, it reminds me of a great chapter from one of my favorite books, Nuture Shock: New Thinking About Children. Like nearly every parenting issue, there's a lot of gray area here and not a whole lot of black and white- I'd love to hear your thoughts! Here's Jessica with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Jessica, Parenting, The grown ups (that's you!) Tagged With: gifted kids, Nurture shock, parenting, praising effort, the right way to praise kids

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