TPP 050: Celi Trépanier on the Benefits of Homeschooling Gifted Children
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is giftedness and why is it often misunderstood?
We know that children need to learn to fail. They need to learn to overcome failure. But when our gifted children are sitting in the regular classroom day in and day out, and it's mind numbing for them and So they check out, they just disengage and their grades slipping and the right solutions are not being applied. They feel failure every day.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and today's guest is educator, author, and blogger Celie Trepinier. A teacher who was taught in both public and private schools, Celie became a passionate advocate for gifted children after tiring of her battles with schools and their misunderstandings of how. How to support gifted children. She's the author of the book Educating Your Gifted Child: How One Public School Teacher Embraced Homeschooling, a parent group facilitator for the organization Sang, supporting the emotional needs of the gifted, and keeps a blog at Crushing Child Poppies.
In our conversation, we talk about why many schools, even sometimes those designed specifically to cater to gifted children, aren't able to fully support these unique learners. And Celie shares why she believes homeschooling gifted children is such a great option if it's something that's possible to do for your family, as well as gives us her advice for how to get started. Before we get into our conversation, I wanted to take a moment to give a shout-out to Simone Davis, one of our sponsors for the Tilt Parenting Podcast, through our Patreon campaign. Thank you so much for your support of what we're doing. If you'd like to join Simone in supporting this podcast. Through Patreon, you can make a small monthly contribution that will go towards funding our production costs.
Please check out our Patreon page at patreon.com slash tiltparenting. Thank you for considering and for being a part of our community. And now let's get on with the show. Hi Seely, thanks so much for being a guest on the show today. Hi Debbie, I'm very excited to be here. Well I've been wanting to have this discussion for a while and Believe it or not, you're actually the first guest I've had on the Tilt podcast to talk about giftedness. And a lot of our community has children who are either gifted or twice exceptional. And I have so, so many questions for you.
Okay.
I'm gonna try to keep this to a reasonable length, but I I'm just excited. I know this conversation is going to be especially resonant for our community. So before we get into the nitty-gritty, I would love if you could tell us a bit about your background, you know, kind of who you are as a mother. Um, I know that you are very personally connected to what we're gonna talk about today. And so I'd if you could tell us a bit of your story or what I like to call your personal why, that would be great.
Well, I'm the mom of three boys. The oldest two are about eleven and thirteen years older than my youngest. And I am a former public school teacher. And as far as my personal why, it honestly wasn't until our third child that we fell into this gifted journey. Although my oldest two are gifted, they were just di you know, they were different. All children are different. So when we started with our our youngest, we called him the most child because he compared to the other two, he you know, he he talked the most, he ran the most, he, you know And it was uh the struggles we had with traditional school that got us on this, you know, the family on the journey and me writing and me advocating for gifted kids.
Mm-hmm. And so you are now homeschooling. Are you homeschooling all your children
or I did. I did at various times for you know, all three, but more so my youngest.
Okay. And I would love also before we really get into it, if you have a definition of giftedness just for the purposes of this episode Giftedness is one of those hot button issues. It's something we talk a lot about on on the Tilt uh Facebook page.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is giftedness and why is it often misunderstood?
0:00–6:14
2
How did Celi’s personal journey lead her to homeschool her gifted children?
6:14–11:24
3
Why do most public schools fail to meet the needs of gifted learners?
11:24–16:42
4
What are the common pitfalls of gifted programs that focus only on high‑achieving students?
16:42–22:52
5
How can homeschooling provide a better fit for gifted children?
22:52–27:44
6
What practical steps and resources help parents start homeschooling gifted kids?
27:44–33:10
7
Can homeschooled gifted students transition smoothly to university?
33:10–33:43
8
Where can listeners connect with Celi and find more homeschooling resources?
33:43–34:31
Speakers
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