TPP 319a: Dr. Gail Post on the Gifted Parenting Journey and Support for Families of Gifted Children
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Hey, it's Debbie. For the month of April, Playback Friday episodes are focused on the unique experiences of gifted and twice exceptional kids. These are episodes from the archive that explore how to support a child who is misunderstood, out of sync, or navigating the intensity and complexity that often comes with being gifted or two-e. I hope you enjoy them. Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. It's been a while since I've done an episode that focuses squarely on giftedness and the unique challenges parents face in supporting their bright, gifted, and twice exceptional kids.
So when I found out that Gail Post, the psychologist behind the popular Gifted Challenge blog, which incidentally was one of my very first go-to resources before I even dreamed of creating Tilled Parenting, had just released a new book for parents. I reached out and invited her to join me on the show. As a clinical psychologist, parenting coach, and consultant for more than 35 years, and as the parent of two gifted young adults, Gail has been providing psychotherapy with a focus on the needs of intellectually and musically gifted and twice exceptional kids. Her new book, The Gifted Parenting Journey, extends her advocacy efforts to address the needs of parents of gifted children. In this episode, Gail and I
talk about the common challenges parents raising these kids experience as part of the journey, why it can sometimes feel uncomfortable to celebrate our child's accomplishments with others, and how to handle our own expectations and pressures we may experience because of our child's unique learning profile. And now here is my conversation with Gail. Hey Gail, welcome to the podcast. Hi, thanks for having me here.
Glad to be here.
Well, I'd love if you could take a few minutes to just introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about the work that you do. And as part of that, I always ask my guests to share their personal why for the work that they do.
Well, the why has really informed how I got involved in this. So background, I'm a clinical psychologist, in practice for like thirty-five years, work with teens, adults, parents, families, all that stuff. But my interest in giftedness was sparked by several convergences of events. One was as I was getting more involved in private practice. Really bright, high achieving people, and they had unique issues. So, also tending to see a lot of folks with ADHD and other complicating factors. But the biggest thing was really raising to gifted kids that it up to how much advocacy work is necessary. And I got involved with a gifted parenting group that was within our school district, ended up co-chairing that.
We advocated for a lot of things with the schools and got some things accomplished, things like universal screening, all of that. As my youngest was about to graduate, because now we're going on almost ten years of my blog, I started a blog which wasn't so much about my own stuff or my kids, but more about social and emotional issues and advocacy and parenting. And I just felt like I needed to advocate in some other way. So I continued to write and did workshops and all that. 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
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–14:27
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What inspired Dr. Gail Post to focus on gifted and twice‑exceptional children?
14:27–27:23
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How does the book “The Gifted Parenting Journey” help parents understand their own motivations?
27:23–35:38
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What are the most common challenges parents face when raising gifted or 2e kids?
35:38–38:15
Speakers
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