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Support for our brightest minds and their families

Parenting the profoundly gifted child comes with its own unique opportunities and challenges. We hope to offer families support, insight and resources. We hope, with this website, to help you find resources to identify whether or not your child is profoundly gifted; provide a group of parents for support if your child is profoundly gifted and help you find the resources available for profoundly gifted children. We have both an online and in person support network.

We're glad that you're here. Know that you are not alone and there are resources available for families of profoundly gifted children.

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Radical Acceleration/Early College as an option

You are invited to complete an online survey about early college and radical acceleration as an educational option for highly and profoundly gifted students. If you are the parent of a child who started part-time or full-time college BEFORE the age of 15, you are eligible to participate in this survey. Click here for the online survey. This survey is being conducted by Hand In Hand Homeschool and Texas Parents of the Profoundly Gifted. Questions regarding this survey can be directed to Alessa Giampaolo, M.Ed. at info @ handinhandhomeschool.com

Article: A Pot of Gold: Gifted Children & “True” Peers

by Stacia Taylor Founder, Texas Parents of the Profoundly Gifted 2011-13 member, NAGC Parent Advisory Committee

A frequent topic of conversation for parents of gifted children is the challenge of finding peers. For some gifted children, peers can be as elusive as the end of a rainbow. For a gifted child connecting with a true peer is surely a pot of gold.

We often think of a child’s peers as those of the same age and grade. However, a true peer relationship is much more colorful. A peer validates interests, challenges you to go further, and delights in shared camaraderie. True peers are those people who meet on a social, emotional and intellectual level, not those who are simply age or grade compatible. True peers inhabit the same universe.

My eldest daughter enjoys telling jokes to people she does not know. I have realized this is her clever strategy for discovering true peers. Her jokes are layered and most everyone will get the first layer of the joke, but every so often someone will also “get” the second layer of the joke. Her face lights up when she realizes she has “struck gold” and found a kindred spirit. These jokes are like a secret language reserved for and only recognized by her true peers.

What is your child’s secret language? Helping your gifted child recognize when a potential friend is meaningfully connecting to his interests or unique way, will help him in mastering this skill alone.

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