Gail Post
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first heard Feb 2023
last heard Feb 2023
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And then recently published a book through Gifted Unlimited Press called The Gifted Parenting Journey, which is really about parents understanding their own motivations and emotions so that they can parent at their best.
But I just think that, you know, 10 years later, since my blog came out, I've seen some progress in the field and certainly an explosion in awareness of neurodiversity.
But
Man, those school systems a lot of times are still in the dark ages and don't get it.
So parents are continuing to struggle.
Fortunately, there are more options for parents to learn more, like podcasts like yours and lots of groups online.
But it's always a struggle for families.
As a psychologist and from my own personal awareness that the more we understand about ourselves and our underlying motives, the better we can parent.
There are some good books out there that focus on that in the general parenting literature, for example, Parenting from the Inside Out by Dan Siegel.
But there isn't a lot out there and certainly nothing to my knowledge specifically about this in the gifted literature.
So I wanted to invite parents to learn more about themselves through self-reflection and other exercises so that they can really have a handle on what they're feeling and feel more grounded going forward with advocating for their children and being there when their child is really intense or demanding or asking a billion questions and how to calm their own
worries and fears and anger and frustration and all that, because it's quite a challenge.
I think that, again, the more we know about ourselves, the more we can help our kids.
Sort of like on an airplane when you're told, well, in case of emergency, put on the oxygen mask first before you put it on your child.
We have to be grounded in who we are so we can weather the rough times and also fully immerse ourselves in enjoying the good times.
Sure.
Well, every gifted child, as we know, is different from the next, but there are some common
show up a lot.
So certainly the intensity and heightened sensitivity, increased empathy, awareness of social justice issues, but also for some, there can be asynchronous development, which as we know is where aspects of their development lag behind others.
Most commonly seen and most frustrating when the child's social and emotional immaturity is
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