Introduction

The purpose of this blog is to give a little bit of hope and comfort to the parents of exceptional kids out there. Because I know that, at times, it seems inconceivable that your child will ever be independent. Maybe he is getting thrown out of every third Math class or skipping Gym. Maybe she’s bullying other kids or being bullied herself. Maybe the teachers overestimate her. Maybe the teachers underestimate her. For whatever reason, your child is not thriving in a conventional school setting. You feel like there is something more to education, some better way.

Or maybe your child is getting straight A’s but not doing any homework. Maybe she just got 100% on her fourth grade Astronomy test but doesn’t know why the moon disappears every month. Maybe you feel your kid's school focuses too much on testing and too little on learning. Maybe it does.

Most likely your child has some “data” surrounding him. Most likely it’s negative. Even if he doesn’t have a math disability, a language disability, an attention disability, or a spectrum disorder, he probably has some negative data. She may be in the gifted program in some classes and flunking others. You know your child struggles in certain ways, but is exceptionally talented in others. Don’t you? Don’t you know that she has a complementary set of strengths for every negative data point? Do you know that? Do you believe it?

You'll need to.