At some point, however, parents
of gifted kids often wonder what's at the root of those different behaviors.
Not exact matches
Imagine Childhood: It had been a number
of years since the shop closed and
often we found ourselves drifting into discussions about the importance
of good, quality
gifts for
kids.
Previously, I had always thought
of these books as
gifts for
kids who have parents that are deployed, grandparents they don't get to see very
often or birth families that want to share in story time.
As parents, we
often try to do everything for our
kids, but one
of the greatest
gifts we can give them is empowering them to pack their own lunches.
With no
kids herself, but friends that do, she
often found herself devoting a lot
of energy towards finding thoughtful
gifts for new parents and babies.
Parents
of gifted children will
often note that, when their
kids were babies, they would have to move them as
often as every 20 minutes to keep them from crying.
You can find lists
of resources (every imaginable type
of resource), links to online forums about
gifted education and
gifted students, a very thorough section for parents
of the
gifted, details about the different methods
often used for identification
of the
gifted, curriculum resources for teachers, a section for
gifted kids, and multiple sections covering the various aspects
of social and emotional needs
of the
gifted.
While this book and others like it are
often used to «prove» that so many
gifted, highly
gifted, and profoundly
gifted kids can not exist, this book, and its underlying premise
of a Bell Curve distribution for intelligence, is not borne out in research.
From the so - called
gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all
kids by continuing the rationing
of education at the heart
of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions
of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and
often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters
of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.
Today, the holiday is associated with Christmas and
kids often receive one
gift for every night
of Chanukkah.