The Gifted and Distractible Course

Understanding, Strategies, and Advocacy for Your Twice-Exceptional Child

facilitated by Julie Skolnick, M.A., J.D.

Offered only three times a year

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Parenting twice exceptional children is complicated.Don’t do it alone.

Our process replaces guesswork with understanding, connection, and competence.

If this sounds like your home:

  • Laundry undone, scrambling to get dinner on the table, wishing for family dinners but settling to just get some food into your kids.
  • Homework, chores, and teeth-brushing are a battle.
  • You get conflicting advice from everyone, and almost all of it focuses on your child’s behavior. Not on their brilliance.
  • You feel powerless during meltdowns and perfectionism spirals.
  • You wish you could partner with your child’s school, but it’s rare that a teacher even knows what 2e is.
  • Or you’re homeschooling, and struggling to keep your child motivated and on task.
  • You’re sick of bribing and consequences and cajoling as your only tools.

You’re not alone.

If you wish your child was born holding an instruction manual in their hand, you’ve come to the right place. The Gifted and Distractible Course is a blueprint for parenting your child. We lower the temperature on stress and increase joy in your home. Stop parenting alone.

In this 8-week course, parents learn a structured and strengths-based approach to identify and resolve triggers, to deepen relationships, and to strengthen self-confidence.

My book, Gifted and Distractible, has more than 200 pages of strategies. This course is where we put them to work and teach you how to implement them right now.

Each week, you’ll learn something new, and you get to do it at your own pace. I’ve recorded several digestible webinars, chunked so you can listen to them on the go: in your car, when you walk your dog, while you fold laundry, or while waiting in the carpool line. Then we meet live four times for 90 minutes each time to discuss what you’ve learned. You’ll use the complimentary and comprehensive workbook I wrote specifically for this course to record your thoughts, your questions, and your progress.

By the end of the course, you’ll have deepened your understanding of your child so you can implement meaningful strategies, and advocate to teachers, to in-laws, to your partner, to anybody who’s in your 2e kid’s life, so they deepen their understanding and utilize these best-practice, strengths-based strategies.

Let’s extinguish your stress and help your child’s self-confidence and self-love BLOSSOM.

"Prior to joining the course, I felt like I was on an island raising kids nobody else really gets and clueless as to how to best support and advocate for them. Connecting with other parents gave me assurance and tons of hope that we are not alone in this."

Erika Thomas, past participant

What we’ll cover:

Part I: Understanding

  • Stop the guesswork. Learn what giftedness actually is.
  • Why your child is years ahead in certain areas and behind in others.
  • The learning differences that most often travel with giftedness.
  • Discover your own parenting style, and what to do when your patience runs out.

Part II: Strategies

  • Delve into my P-R-A-I-S-E framework.
  • Deepen personal connection, reframe behavior, and anticipate struggles.
  • Apply incentives and choices, and weave in a sense of humor and exercise.

Part III: Strategies continued

  • Identify the rage bell curve, and learn to respond rather than react.
  • Structure morning and evening routines.
  • Resolve homework struggles.
  • Address screen time struggles.

Part IV: Advocacy

  • Learn best practices for collaboration with your child’s school, or anyone else in their life.
  • Craft your child’s story.
  • Build user-friendly one-page summaries for teacher meetings.
  • Set specific goals with named action items. You leave with the document in hand.
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"The focus on connection and seeing the relationship as THE most important thing in all of this was probably the most important takeaway for me. I have started to find small moments of joy here and there with my kids that I was starving for."

Marie H., past participant

$497 for 8-week access, $697 for one year, $997 for lifetime access plus ongoing membership in the G&D Parent Community. Option to pay in installments available.
Please note: enrollment closes October 6, the day the course begins, so that everyone moves through the material together.

Julie Skolnick, M.A., J.D.

Julie Skolnick, M.A., J.D., is the founder of With Understanding Comes Calm, LLC, and author of Gifted and Distractible, published by Penguin Random House, a three-time award winner with over 31,000 copies sold.

Julie guides families through complex situations, works with parents of gifted and distractible children around the world, trains educators, and mentors twice-exceptional adults.

She and her husband parent three twice-exceptional children. As she tells her course participants, her parent clients sometimes think she has a crystal ball, because she can finish their sentences. That comes from raising her own three, and from hundreds and hundreds of clients around the world.

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