Women are consistently underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields, despite efforts to encourage and recruit them. For example, reported that while 74% of middle school girls were interested in STEM subjects, only .3% eventually majored in computer science. have found that only 18% of computer science graduates and 12%...
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Why do smart girls develop eating disorders?
Parents of gifted girls might wonder how "smart" girls could develop an eating disorder. Doesn't their intelligence, insight and maturity somehow insulate them from developing these devastating problems?And are they more or less likely than others to have a problem with their eating?It's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, a time to spread the...
What causes gifted underachievement?
Why does your gifted child struggle in school?Your child, once curious, energetic, overjoyed to learn, now has little interest in academics. As a parent, you stand by helplessly, saddened as you watch the spark disappear.Gifted underachievers vary in . They may exert just enough effort to coast through school, and ignored because of average or even...
If I’d Known Then …
Yesterday I read an about gifted children that was written over 10 years ago. It had deeply profound insights that could have made a world of difference in the life of one of my children. If I had known then what I know now … but I didn’t; and I can’t change the past.My husband and I have been beating ourselves up lately about all the mistakes we...
The Messages Behind Discipline
With every correction, I am giving my child a message about who he is.Because children see themselves through the eyes of their parents, because what they see reflected in our eyes shapes who they become, because the truths they hold about themselves start as the truths we hold about them, there is perhaps no greater work than minding how we view our...