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What I’m Reading: “A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children,” Preface
I love to read. I read mostly fiction, but I also have a particular affinity for parenting books. I thought I would start a new blog post category to share with you my thoughts about whichever...
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What I’m Reading: “A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children,” Introduction, Part 1
This book is so full of important content that I’m going to have to break it down. Here is part one of my discussion about the Introduction of A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children. The main idea of the...
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What I’m Reading: “A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children,” Introduction, Part 2
As I mentioned in my last post on A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children, there are many weighty ideas in the Introduction. Here’s part 2 with more: Optimum intelligence Given the fact that so many gifted...
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What I’m Reading, “A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children,” Defining Giftedness
In my last post on this book, I covered the book’s introduction which discussed the challenges facing gifted children and their parents. Among those challenges were the many myths that define...
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What I’m Reading, “A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children,” Inheritability of...
Is giftedness inherited? I touched on this in an earlier post, but A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children is very clear that while there is certainly a genetic component to giftedness, environment is a...
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What I’m Reading, “A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children,” Asynchronous...
One concept that isn’t commonly understood among parents is that most gifted children excel in one or two areas, not all. A child may excel in reading, but do poorly in math. Or they may be a whiz with...
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What I’m Reading: “Bringing Up Bebe,” The American Question
Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman is a fascinating book. I offered a summary here, but after starting the book, I couldn’t put it down!...
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What I’m Reading: “Bringing Up Bebe,” The Pause
Technically, I’m done reading Bringing Up Bebe, but there’s so much to discuss! Today, I’ll talk about “la pause” or “the pause.” Essentially, it’s the idea of allowing a baby to self-soothe, pausing...
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What I’m Reading: “Bringing Up Bebe,” Alone Time
There are so many commonalities between Ezzo parenting and French parenting. Bringing Up Bebe discusses the need for children to have alone time. The Ezzos suggest that we have a daily structured alone...
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