Meow! If anyone ever had any doubt about the venom that is out there on the topic of gifted, one just has to take a look author Marjorie Ingall’s (aka Snarly — never was there a truer moniker) oh-so-diplomatically URL’d post of August 2nd. While the title of the post was “I’ve Got Your Gifted [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Oh, But I Don’t Mean YOU
Posted in Gifted, School on August 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »
It’s Official: Homeschooling is Hot
Posted in education, Gifted, Homeschooling, In the News, tagged Homeschooling, parenting on August 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
No lesser authority than the New York Times Magazine has decreed it: Homeschooling is “in vogue.” Just check out the piece “School’s In,” about Mini-R.A.D, short for Revolutionary Artistic Development: a fledgling home school cooperative started by the fashion photographers Tom Betterton and Jenny Gage three years ago with three other sets of Brooklyn hipster [...]
Getting ready
Posted in Home Life on August 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Hello again! Yes, it has been awhile. Thank you to the kind people who commented and asked about my silence. Hard to say why I’ve been away from The More Child. Combination of things, I suppose. A huge storm that knocked our power out for four days (we had to dump the entire fridge) and [...]
Wisenheimer: A Story of Verbal Giftedness
Posted in Gifted, tagged debate, education, Gifted, high school, middle school, parenting, private school, teens, verbally gifted, verbally talented on August 3, 2010 | 17 Comments »
I was hanging out in the biography section of Borders, banished there because History was M’s section, when the book caught my eye. Red and white cover — curiously several books I’ve bought recently are red and white. And the title? “wis·en·heim·er: A Childhood Subject to Debate” by Mark Oppenheimer. Hmm. Interesting. I pulled it [...]
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