TPP 086a: Dr. Michael Postma of SENG on the Plight of Gifted and 2e Kids
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Who is Dr. Michael Postma and what is his role with SENG?
Hey there, it's Debbie and welcome to Playback Friday. Every Friday I'll re-release one of my favorite conversations from the archives. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, you just may get something completely different listening to it this time around.
You know, the one thing I always emphasize is empathy. I've always said when I hired teachers in the past, I said, I can teach you all the skills, but I can't teach you empathy. And if you th you don't have the empathy, it's very difficult to teach one of these children.
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 I'm talking with Dr. Michael Postma, a writer, consultant, and presenter specializing in the education and well-being of twice exceptional and intellectually gifted students and their families. Dr. Postma is the executive director of SENG, which stands for Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted. An organization whose mission it is to empower families and communities to guide gifted and talented individuals to reach their goals, intellectually, physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
He's also the author of the new book, The Inconvenient Student: Critical Issues in the Identification and Education of Twice Exceptional Students. Dr. Postma and I had an honest and personal conversation about the challenges facing gifted and 2e students. And this is one of those episodes that just might leave you feeling pensive, concerned, and ignited all at the same time. And if you're raising a gifted or 2e kid, I encourage you to check out all the resources and places for further information that Dr. Postma shares, especially those related to Sang. Before our conversation, I wanted to invite you to sign up for my Tilt Parenting newsletter. Every Thursday, I send out a short email including a quick note for me, a link to that week's podcast and bonus after the show video, and links to five must-read articles from the news that week that are relevant to parents of differently wired kids.
To sign up, just visit tiltparenting.com and fill in the form that says Join the Tilt Revolution I also wanted to give a shout out to Susan Windsor-Jones. Susan is the newest supporter of the podcast, and her generous donation is helping me cover the production costs associated with making a weekly podcast. So thank you, Susan. And if you would like to join Susan, please consider supporting the podcast through Patreon. Patreon is a simple membership platform that allows people to make a small monthly contribution, as little as $2 a month. once a month to fund our show. If you want to help, visit patreon.com slash tiltparenting. Thanks so much and now here's my conversation with doctor Michael Postma. Welcome to the podcast, Michael.
Thanks for having me.
Well, I'm really looking forward to having you on the show. A lot of the listeners of the Tilt Parenting Podcast have gifted children and I know that you're the new executive director of Sang. So I'm thrilled to be able to bring you onto the show. And we have a lot to talk about today. So I would love to actually start by hearing about just your background. Tell us a little bit about who you are, what you do, and I'm always curious to know people's personal why for the work that they do in the world.
Okay. I'll give you the uh condensed version of this 'cause it's a long story, but um I I grew up in Canada. And back in the day Uh we didn't have a lot of programming for gifted or for twice exceptional students and I grew up with uh A D D Um some Asperger's and got through school no problem. Um, because as you know, gifted kids can camouflage quite easily. But part of the issue was the social emotional development wasn't there and that asynchronous piece uh really affected me um to a point where I struggled with depression for quite some time, um, even up through my adulthood.
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