by Cara Maclean | Oct 17, 2019 | Education, Parenting
I don’t know how I feel about the phrase ‘chasing 2e’. I’ve heard it a number of times now, along with the recommendation to keep finding doctors or practitioners who will diagnose an issue. When we were seeking medical help to figure out what was going on with our...
by Cara Maclean | Oct 10, 2019 | Community, Education, Parenting, Self Care
If you’re a parent, plenty of advice comes your way. Most from strangers, or mild acquaintances, this advice originates from their own experience. We all use our own experience to make sense of the world and how things work. Usually, the advice sesh a quick...
by Cara Maclean | Oct 3, 2019 | Education, Parenting
When someone mentions the term ‘gifted’ regarding their child, one question pops up in everyone’s mind: How do you know? Who has the magic wand to bestow the ‘gifted’ label or not? Even though that’s what if feels like sometimes, there’s no...
by Cara Maclean | Aug 22, 2019 | Community, Mindfulness, Parenting, Uniqueness
My parents sent a mystery gift that arrived last night. A lamp shade gave away it’s identity, but as I pulled it out of the box, I wondered if it would be a leg lamp, a la A Christmas Story. Nope! It’s still different though! It’s made out of an airplane...
by Cara Maclean | Aug 15, 2019 | Education, Parenting
I recently read an article about a 10 year old boy who was a sophomore in college, studying math and physics. In the article, they described how he developed early with words and numbers. His parents recounted him speaking in sentences just after his first birthday,...
