The Gifted Garden

The Way You Hang Your Roll Of Toilet Paper Says A Lot About You

How do you hang your toilet paper? Under the roll and closer to the wall? Or do you hang your toilet paper over the roll? Well, a new study suggests there [...]

And the Right Way to Hang Toilet Paper Is...

Find out if you've been doing it correctly this whole time

20 Last-Minute Gift Ideas For Any Occasion, Because We've All Been There

Unique Gift Ideas for Any Occasion

Gift Canyon is a gifting website that discusses gift ideas for different occasions and people, as well as gifting guides, gifting traditions and etiquette.

This Is How You Can Exchange That Unwanted Gift Card

Guilty thoughts: What parents of gifted children really think.

Parents of gifted children experience a range of feelings about raising a gifted child.

How to keep gifted kids motivated: 8 Ideas for Parents and Teachers

How to keep gifted kids motivated - Ever wondered how to keep gifted kids motivated? Ever laid awake nights wondering how to keep gifted kids motivated? Ever torn your hair out wondering how to keep gifted kids motivated?

Two Lessons on How to Support Gifted Kids

For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark implications

Reed Ball started playing Monopoly with his family at age three—and beat them. In the early 1980s, he was one of the first kids to have a “portable” computer, a 10-kilogram Amstrad PPC512. Reed bro…

9 Inspiring Gardens Gain Privacy and Screening With Plants

Boost your privacy outdoors and screen adjacent buildings with planting ideas from these diverse gardens

Gifted, talented and archetyped

Darren Aronofsky A number of exceptionally talented people in the arts get freighted with a kind of unwanted godhood of exaggerated expectations. The photo is Darren Aronofsky directing Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman in “The Fountain” [which he also wrote]. In his article From Here to Eternity in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly [Nov …

Grit and Giftedness: Four Ways to Encourage Perseverance in Gifted Children

Can grit and giftedness go together? IEA Program Assistant Nicole Endacott shares four ways you can encourage resilience in your gifted child.

When you are blessed with a gifted child

Gifted kids don’t align with social and developmental norms, and they often find it difficult to integrate with their same-age peers. Understanding the diverse ways in which giftedness can develop can help parents and educators identify these unique children early on and give them the support they need to thrive.

How not to shame a gifted child

Gifted children often feel shame, self-doubt and insecurity due to their differences, media stereotypes of giftedness, and misconceptions and expectations from others.

Being Gifted is Often NOT the Same as Being High-Achieving

When most of us think of gifted children, we automatically think of high-achieving students—the smart ones. I think this misperception began in our schools.Well, I am not saying they intentionally created this misperception, but—Too many gifted education programs in our schools ar

Gifted Children: Signs You're Raising a Child Genius

You could be raising a gifted child (or gifted children!) if they display these traits. Read on to find out if you have a genius on your hands!

Your school probably has more gifted students than you think

Researchers found 25-45% of students studied in classrooms across three states performed above grade level in English and math.