New Year New You – 9 Steps to Achieving Your 2e Goals
Reflect on 2024 to plan a purposeful 2025. Embrace achievements, learn from challenges, and set realistic goals with actionable steps for a positive year ahead.
Twice Exceptional Ways to Anticipate and Adjust for the “Holiday Horribles”
Learn why the holidays can be tough for gifted and distractible people and how to ease challenges like sensory overload, transitions, and family dynamics.
When parents of 2e kids aren’t on the same parenting page
Parenting a 2e child is rewarding but tough. Learn how to overcome ‘good cop/bad cop’ dynamics and strengthen your partnership with better communication and support.
8 Strategies for Seasonal Transitions and Twice Exceptionality
Twice Exceptional people struggle with seasonal transitions. Learn 8 tips to manage SAD and emotional regulation as daylight fades, from light therapy to self-care
The Dangerous Diminishment of the Term “Gifted”
There is a movement afoot to substitute the term “advanced learner” for gifted. This is an attempt to “dumb down” a moniker that stands for way more than intellectual acumen […]
Adjusting versus Masking: How Neurodiverse Adults Can Thrive in a Neurotypical World
When talking with 2e adults, inevitably, the topic of “masking” comes up. After years of feeling different, they notice that their priorities, goals, and needs are dissimilar to just about […]
Lessons from Summertime for Parents and Twice Exceptional Adults
Is summertime a microcosm for how we really want to live our lives? I think about vacation, the fluidity of lazy mornings or afternoons, the flexibility in our schedules – […]
Lessons from Loss and Self-love
“When you love so deeply, pain hurts more.” That’s what my husband said to me after our beloved red standard poodle, Tigger, passed away from an aggressive cancer just two […]
Collaborative Communication Skills on Behalf of 2e Learners
Since the Gifted and Distractible blog literally posts on National Teachers’ Day this year, I’d like to address the importance of, and how to communicate effectively between teachers and parents […]
Balancing Social Emotional Needs and the “Real World”
SEL or Social Emotional Learning are buzz words in today’s educational system and recommended as a focus in the home to encourage social success. Yet it is imperative that SEL […]
