Tag: twice exceptional

• A Weary World Rejoices

  

  Dear Cade, Nothing about December 2022 has felt Christmassy. Maybe it was starting the month missing you and your sister as you finished your first semesters of college. Or maybe it’s because Dad’s job currently demands more of him than any of us like to spare. And then there was my bright idea to trade…

  Laura Spaulding

  December 27, 2022

  Family and Faith, GT and Twice Exceptional Kids, Individualized Parenting and Education, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Cade

  bird, birds, Children, christmas, college, Faith, Family, grace, Grief, holidays, joy, Parenting, parrotlet, pets, son, teenagers, twice exceptional

• The Things that Matter Most

  

  Dear Cade, You challenge me! You challenge me in ways all 16-year-old sons challenge their mothers, but it’s so much more than that! You also challenge me in the ways only an absent-minded professor challenges and confounds everyone they meet. While you miss obvious and practical realities staring you in the face, you’re more awake…

  Laura Spaulding

  March 21, 2022

  Family and Faith, GT and Twice Exceptional Kids, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Unity in Diversity, Words to Cade

  Children, church, diversity, Education, Faith, Family, gifted and talented, grace, high school, joy, Parenting, siblings, teenagers, truth, twice exceptional, unity

• Sports, Space, Racecars, and Excavators

  

  Dear Cade, Daddy and I both for different reasons hoped that our first child would be a boy. I’d always dreamed of an older brother, so I thought it would be ideal for my oldest to be male, but for your sports loving Daddy he dreamed of shooting hoops and playing catch with his son…

  Laura Spaulding

  April 23, 2021

  Family and Faith, GT and Twice Exceptional Kids, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting Teenagers, Unity in Diversity, Words to Cade

  Children, college admissions, counseling, Education, Faith, gifted and talented, grace, healing, high school, home, learning differences, Learning Disabilities, Parenting, teenagers, test scores, twice exceptional

• 8th Grade Graduation

  

  Dear Cade, This week you graduated from 8th grade. It was an emotional week for me, but not for the reasons others might expect.    I remember being emotional when your older sister walked across the 8th grade stage to receive her “most likely to be a best-selling author who inspires the world with her…

  Laura Spaulding

  May 27, 2019

  Family and Faith, GT and Twice Exceptional Kids, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Cade

  Children, Education, Faith, Family, gifted and talented, Learning Disabilities, Parenting, social media, twice exceptional