Gail Post
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280 appearances
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first heard Feb 2023
last heard Feb 2023
Gail Post’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they don't necessarily have to be parents of gifted or 2A kids.
They can be folks who just really understand you and your child and love you and your child and are willing to appreciate and enjoy and share their victories.
It's tough for the most part.
And even
In situations where parents do receive some compliments about their children, a lot of times they fall into doing something that you could call undoing.
So they may say, yeah, I'm so proud of my daughter.
She won this award, but you should see her messy room.
Or my son did great in the play.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
But man, he can barely keep up with his homework.
So there's this need to quickly normalize it.
by pointing out something negative rather than just accepting the compliment.
It's really hard and your kids are going to pick up on it.
It's quite a challenge following that balancing act because they're going to think, well, maybe my achievements aren't so great because, you know, my parents don't seem to make a big deal about it in public.
Or maybe I have to be super high achiever.
They're going to pick up on it, unfortunately.
So we have to kind of talk to them, too, about humility and understanding
what to share and what not to share, and the harsh reality that we're in a society that really has a lot of ambivalence and negative feelings about gifted folks.
Yeah, it's really a tough one because we see all this potential and don't know what the heck to do about it.
Do we push them?
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