What’s Wrong With Me? – Thea’s Story
What do you do when your child feels that being different – being bright – is wrong? For the parents of Thea*, now aged 9, it [...]
Parent Wellbeing – A Resource Round-up to Reassure and Relax
Some days, raising a child with high learning potential can feel like it’s drowning you under a huge wave of demands. The quirky needs, complex questions [...]
Bullying and Children with High Learning Potential by CBT Therapist, Tony Freeman
In 15 years of treating gifted children (also known as children with high learning potential / high ability / more able), I have seen the unique [...]
Worrying Times – A Resource Round-Up for Real-World Anxieties
In these worrying and unpredictable times, many of our children and young people are, sadly, struggling to cope. The years usually set aside for pre-school socialising, [...]
Bullying and High Learning Potential
Being there for a young person singled out due to their ability What is Bullying? “Bullying is the repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group [...]
Wellbeing and Nature – Indoors and Out!
Pathways to boosted mental, physical and academic wellbeing We instinctively know that going outside into nature is good for body and soul. Now, [...]
Learning about Learning with an Elephant
Non-confrontational lessons and insights from Kaavan the rescue elephant Kaavan’s mental journey is a marvellous and non-intimidating parallel that we can use to teach young people [...]
Back to School Anxiety – Helping Your Child to Cope After Lockdown
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that parents in possession of a high learning potential child, with a good deal of intensity and facing the post-Covid [...]
Going Back to School After Lockdown – Handling Anxiety by Cheryl Kennedy
Going back to school after such a long time away, especially in these strange times, is something that a lot of parents and children have been [...]
Overexcitabilities: Sensual Overexcitability
Children with high learning potential, especially those who display Sensual Overexcitability, have a heightened awareness of one or all five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, and [...]