Category: Miscellaneous

A top-ten list of summer activities for gifted children, including field trips, camps, virtual experiences, TED Talks, geocaching, science programs, and the SENG conference. The author thanks SENG Facebook members for contributions and offers practical, varied options to keep gifted kids engaged over summer.

An educator suggests ten resolutions for gifted children to foster strengths, creativity, curiosity, and resilience. Recommendations include valuing strengths, advocating for oneself, creating, reading broadly, seeking new experiences, embracing failure, pursuing interests, nurturing kindness, making time to play, and remembering that school isn’t everything.

This post explains how imaginative play supports children’s development—promoting creativity, problem solving, social skills and self-regulation. It outlines play phases across ages, cites research on attention, and urges parents and schools to preserve unstructured playtime rather than overemphasizing structured lessons, toys, or screen time.

This post explores the importance of passion, how early interests can grow into careers or innovations, and how passion fuels learning, creativity, and philanthropy. It offers steps to identify, pursue, and sustain passion, plus resources and examples like Dan Barber and Casey Golden.