The Mislabeled Child: Library: Creativity and Flow

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Finding Flow

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Gifted and Creative
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Giftedness &
School Problems

Flashes from the Past

Brains on Fire
NAGC presentation
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Creativity, Bipolar, & ADHD

Cross-Disciplinary Learning

Drawing in Your Mind

Easy & Hard Problem Solving

fMRI of Creativity

Interdisciplinary People
vs. Teams

The Joy of Teaching Kid Geeks

The Most Creative Brains

Two Types of Visual Thinkers

One would think that bright, gifted, creative children would have all the advantages anyone would one in looking forward to their future, but these pluses can quickly turn to liabilities and it's important to try to understand your child's individual strengths, challenges, and situation.

When we look at the childhoods of innovative thinkers, they often have important differences from others. They may be intense, have unusual interests, very asynchronous, or get into trouble for daydreaming too much or challenging authority.

Like all children, then need guidance, encouragement, and discipline, but their particular issues may require different sensitivities and even different approaches.

On these pages, we'll be adding links to articles and sites that will be helpful for parents trying foster gifts and abilities, as well as develop resiliency, organization, and social strengths and happiness.