HOMESCHOOLING GIFTED KIDS

<p>Is your kid super smart, intense, and also a bit odd ... like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole? Your child may be <em><strong>gifted</strong></em>— the term defining a person with an IQ of 130 or above. Join guest Jen Vail as she tells her story of homeschooling when public school couldn't meet her son's needs.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>QUOTABLES</strong></p> <p>Jen: " [Our son's giftedness] did not look at all like the stereotype that people imagine when they hear about gifted kids."</p> <p>Jen: "People tend to ruffle a bit at the term <em>gifted</em>, because it implies that there's something <em>better </em>or that they have something that another child doesn't. ... These kids do have <em>neurological </em>differences. <strong>It is a quantifiable difference. </strong>Other parents usually take it as an attack on their own child. And usually the response is, "Every child is gifted." But it's not true. Every child is a <strong>gift</strong>. Absolutely. And every child <strong>has gifts</strong>. Yes, 100% do not discount or deny that. But in the neurological term for <em>gifted</em>, which is an IQ of 130 or above, <em>not every child is gifted."</em></p> <p>Jen: "IQ is not a measure of what a child knows. It's a measure of how their brain processes information. "</p> <p>Ximena: "So many parents are scared of the academic part of homeschooling, but really it's the emotional part of homeschooling that is the difficult part."</p> <p><strong>TIMESTAMPS</strong></p> <p>02:26 Introducing the guest Jen Vail.</p> <p>04:06 How Jen discovered her three children are gifted: the problems at school, the intensity.</p> <p>06:15 When Jen's son's teacher told her he needed to skip first grade.</p> <p>07:00 After the gifted diagnosis, his sarcasm, intensity, arguing, and not fitting in made sense.</p> <p>08:18 Sometimes when kids cause problems at school, it's because they are gifted (and thus bored).</p> <p>09:21 Jen discovers her kindergartener was reading at an 11th grade level.</p> <p>09:30 The school was unequi