Helping Your Gifted Child Through Divorce: Part 2
This article explains how gifted children often respond to parental separation through four coping styles—maneuvering, equilibrating, merging, and diffusing—highlights risks like adultizing and enmeshment, and offers practical parent guidance: cooperate, communicate age-appropriately, avoid parentifying, and keep conflict low to support children.
Under the Spell of Words
Angela Arenivar recounts her childhood obsession with words and journey from practicing spelling to competing at the Scripps National Spelling Bee and appearing in the documentary Spellbound. She reflects on family support, overcoming ridicule, educational opportunities from knowing Spanish, and how language shaped her career as a Spanish teacher.