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I Stand with Ahmed. Um, Can My Kid Get a Scholarship to Space Camp Too?

September 19, 2015 By Kim
Tagged With: geek camp, gifted kids, maker kids

#IStandWithAhmed. I stand with Ahmed, but can my kid get a scholarship for Space Camp, too? Read more on www.TheMakerMom.com.

A few years ago the Young Maker Teen happened upon Nootropic Design's defusable clock and asked to get the kit. In our post-Columbine, post-9/11/01 era, I was wary of a clock that looks like a bomb. I warned him that even if I did buy the kit, he'd never be able to take the completed fake clock bomb out of the house for fear of it being mistaken for a dangerous device. I always suck the fun out of things. In the end, he did not pursue the ... [ Read More ]

Advice for Parents of a Gifted Kindergartener

September 8, 2015 By Kim
Tagged With: gifted education, gifted kids, parenting gifted kids

Advice for parents of a gifted kindergarten student from www.TheMakerMom.com.

Here's what happens when someone asks me to share advice about her gifted kindergartner, a child who is not quite fitting in with his classmates. I can't just share five great tips, even though that would be a lot more friendly to search traffic. I carry so much educational baggage that I have a long, rambling response. Here goes. Advice for parents of a gifted kindergartener With my oldest in his senior year of high school, I’ve been doing a ... [ Read More ]

Gifted Kids and Skinny Dipping in the School Pool

March 27, 2014 By Kim
Tagged With: education funding, gifted education, gifted kids, parenting gifted kids, public school

Did you see this article on gifted education in a recent issue of the Boston Globe? Though oddly titled, it did a good job of making a case for why the needs of gifted students should be a national priority. Here are a couple of the money quotes: Even among Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth participants, the Vanderbilt researchers have previously found that those who weren't challenged in school were less likely to live up to the ... [ Read More ]

Smart, But Socially Awkward

January 28, 2014 By Kim
Tagged With: 2e, but socially awkward, gifted education, gifted kids, parenting gifted kids, smart

You can say old online content never dies, it's just get cached away, but the truth is with the exception of traffic from searches, my old posts never see the light of day. In that spirit, I'm sharing this post from 2006, "Smart, but socially awkward." In the coming weeks I'm going to dust off posts on gifted education and parenting gifted children. Sadly, when it comes to public education, the situation for gifted kids and high ability students ... [ Read More ]

This I Believe, Gifted Education Edition

September 5, 2013 By Kim
Tagged With: challenge, gifted children, gifted education, gifted kids, parenting gifted kids, school

I don't write much about raising gifted children these days because I'm still living it. Also, a few years ago after the school principal advised that the best way to get my older son the challenge he needed was to homeschool, well, I just lost my mojo. In retrospect, I kinda wished we had homeschooled him, but no life decision takes place in a vacuum. There is no edutopia, but there are trade-offs. Maybe we made the right ones. Or not. At ... [ Read More ]

Understanding Gifted Kids

February 26, 2013 By Kim
Tagged With: gifted children, gifted education, gifted kids, gifted students, parenting gifted kids, raising gifted kids, understanding gifted children, understanding gifted kids

the challenges of parenting gifted kids at The Maker Mom blog

There's so much about highly gifted kids that doesn't make sense to outsiders. So many challenges to raising these high-ability, delightfully quirky and often intense kids. Giftedness is not simply smart, it's different. It's hard for many, especially educators to see beyond the fact that a child might have had an early enriched environment (books! experiences!) and understand that gifted children are wired differently than their peers. They ... [ Read More ]

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Kim headshot Summer 2012 I’m a Chicago-area mom of teen boys who is passionate about sharing ideas and resources to raise kids who love Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). I’m a blogger, vlogger, baker and maker, as well as the founder of #STEMchat. I also write about parenting gifted kids, girls in STEM and the Maker Movement. [Read More...]
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