Raising Future Adults

This is the official video for the song All my friends are heathens by Twenty One Pilots.

In my youth, I had a spider phobia.

At the age of twenty, Christopher Knight quit his job and left town.

When I was involved with The TAG Project, it was so common for bright kids to have "The Princess and the pea" syndrome that people were trading tips on children's clothing brands that didn't have tags and stuff like that.

If you have a socially challenged child and wish to watch Rain Man with them for some reason, please prescreen it and think about how you wish to handle certain things.

The title of the movie has nothing to do with autism.

As an adult, people have seen me as extremely articulate and have expressed surprise when I have told anecdotes about speech challenges I had as a toddler, as if toddlers who struggle to pronounce things can't possibly grow up to be articulate adults.

Many years ago, I attended one conference in the gifted world.

Remember that the goal of my writing on this site is helping people with difficult kids raise future adults.

Small children sometimes blow a gasket and have a tantrum.

I was a full-time homemaker and homeschooling mom, so I cooked a lot and nutrition and health was a big part of raising my kids.

There's no single test for ADHD and they have to go through a process of elimination and rule out other things first that may be causing the issues.

I coined the expression Bored Gifted Kid Syndrome while participating on Tagmax and I have a post with that title that doesn't really talk about that.

Here is a short clip of Trevor Noah talking about promising his mom he would be rich so he can buy "two" (things from the menu I guess) and buy desert.

I read an article about a woman Supreme Court Justice, probably Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and it briefly mentioned that her children kept a journal documenting anytime "Mommy Laughed" because she didn't laugh much.

Caroline?

Video (not quite 10 minutes): What face blindness is actually like.

There's a certain amount of natural variation in personality traits.

Venus Flytrap, character on WKRP in Cincinnati (show from my childhood when I owned a pet dinosaur and rotary phone,) explains the atom: Shorter version Longer version A few short clips I tripped across recently (most of which you shouldn't try at home):…

I watched this clip that says on the cover screenshot "Trauma = Genius!"

I have been hesitant to write about this because my seemingly cavalier attitude occurred in a particular context where me failing to be a control freak had no real opportunity to go sideways.

My oldest son is very aspie.

We originally homeschooled through a charter school.

My ex-husband was a bibliophile whose most bitter memory of our marriage was any book I ever made him get rid of.

I recently tripped across this clip of I love Lucy where Ricky reads a children's book and keeps running into different pronunciations of ough.