This post argues profoundly gifted children often need acceleration and individualized, interest-driven learning. Unschooling, mentors and access to higher-level materials help meet cognitive needs while balancing social-emotional development. Parents must adapt, support specialization, and accept there is no one-size-fits-all formula.
The author explains choosing unschooling for profoundly gifted children, arguing that traditional schooling often fails divergent learners. She describes deschooling, radical unschooling, and self-directed learning as pathways that honor curiosity, strengthen critical thinking, and support social-emotional needs, allowing gifted children to flourish outside conventional constraints.
A short review highlighting several homeschool and giftedness blogs that offer insight on non-violent communication, overexcitabilities, and parenting twice-exceptional children. The author recommends blogs by Bob Yamtich, Mona Eby Chicks, and Sarah J. Wilson for practical strategies, empathy, and relatable experiences.
Parenting profoundly gifted children can be challenging and unconventional, as their strong, original personalities often defy social expectations. They may stand out, think deeply or act from the heart, requiring creative, attentive parenting that embraces complexity and the heightened intensity these children bring to family life.
A parent describes raising a profoundly gifted child, explaining why traditional schools often fail to meet their intellectual and emotional needs, and how homeschooling, deschooling, unschooling, mentors, and tailored support can enable self-directed learning while advocating compassion and flexibility.
Parenting an asynchronous child resembles piecing together a 1,000-piece puzzle with missing pieces and no picture: a confusing, unending roller coaster that is exciting, challenging, and daunting. Appreciating the gap between cognitive ability and functional performance requires compassion, understanding, and individualized approaches to parenting and education.
