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Books featuring homeschoolers
Like other kids, homeschoolers can be inspired by seeing themselves in fiction. The problem is that many of the depictions of homeschoolers in mainstream fiction depend on misinformation and depict...
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Our Thorns and our Gifts
We just read The Case of the Deadly Desperados for my daughter’s book club. In the book, the narrator, P.K., is a “half breed” child living in the Old West. After his foster parents are murdered, he is...
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Book Review: Raising Creative Kids
Raising Creative Kids by Susan Daniels and Daniel Peters Susan Daniels and Dan Peters of Summit Center are well-known in the world of gifted psychology. Daniels is co-editor of the wonderful...
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Book review: Children with High-Functioning Autism
I have recently come upon two books that I think are important books for those of us with “quirky” kids to read. This is the first of my reviews—the second will be about The Explosive Child, which I’m...
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Book review: The Explosive Child
The Explosive Child: A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children Ross W. Greene, Ph.D. HarperCollins, 2009 The Explosive Child by Ross Greene has...
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Book review: Searching for Meaning
Searching for Meaning: Idealism, Bright Minds, Disillusionment, and Hope by James T. Webb Great Potential Press Dr. Webb’s work has been very important in my life. The day I picked up A Parent’s Guide...
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Book Review: Make Your Worrier a Warrior
Make Your Worrier a Warrior: A Guide to Conquering Your Child’s Fears by Daniel B. Peters, Ph.D. Great Potential Press, 2014 I don’t have any world-class worriers in my house, so as I started this new...
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My essential children’s library
School is out this week, and I am thinking toward next week: annual spring cleaning. Our spring cleaning usually happens in the summer and is largely a culling of clothing the kids have outgrown,...
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Book Review: Legendary Learning: The Famous Homeschoolers’ Guide to...
Legendary Learning: The Famous Homeschoolers’ Guide to Self-Directed Excellence Jamie McMillin Rivers and Years Publishing, 2012 Great summer reading for homeschooling parents! Last August, I attended...
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A grown-up Harry Potter for me and you
Some years ago my husband was reading a book he’d bought on the basis of a good review. He was sitting in his chair chuckling, and occasionally he would say, “You have to read this!” and then “I mean...
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Empty Shelves for Gifted Readers
This article was originally published on the Write4Kids industry blog. I was inspired to republish it (since it has dropped off their blog in recent times) by this notice in the Society of Children’s...
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The search for the girl scientist in literature
Note: This piece was published by a publishing industry blog a few years ago, but they have apparently reworked their site and I can’t find it anymore. So I am reposting it here. This is one of the...
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Book Review: Creative Home Schooling grows up
It was the weighty Bible of gifted homeschoolers. You saw it on every shelf. My copy was so coveted, one of my homeschooling friends apparently walked off with it and it hasn’t been seen on my shelves...
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Favorite board books
A relative recently had a baby, so I thought I’d go raid our board book collection and give them a few of our favorites. Unfortunately, our remaining board book collection is being protected by a...
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Book review: Raising Human Beings
Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with your Child Dr. Ross Greene Scribner, 2016 There are times when I fervently wish that all human beings were raised to understand the value...
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Math Stories: Fun, Deep Learning for Elementary Students
Readers: This is an update and consolidation of previous posts on this topic. Hopefully I’ve gotten all the resources in here! It started one night when my seven-year-old daughter explained to her...
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Young writers’ reading list
The most important thing that young writers can do to develop their skills is write, write, and write some more. In conjunction with writing, young writers should read great writing: fiction,...
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Educated: A belated book review
I have to admit that I resisted reading Educated by Tara Westover when it came out with a big splash in 2018. I was, frankly, so done with the “homeschooling as child abuse” trope that I didn’t even...
View ArticleReview: Getting gifted homeschoolers (almost) right
As a teacher of gifted learners, I am always interested in how they are portrayed in kids' books. Generations of smart kids had to see themselves portrayed as clueless, clumsy, antisocial idiot...
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