Gifts of the Mind

As a mother and an educator, I often place high expectations on my nine year old son both academically and socially and for the most part he has met and even exceeded those expectations.

Expectaions, what a powerful word as it relates to raisng children.  As parents we are training our children to become the adults they should be..responsible, clean, honest, knowledgeable, and the list goes on.  What happens when seemingly our expectaions are not being met?  We questions ourselves, we make our children try harder, we fuss, we model and we blame and predict but we never get to the root of the problem.

As I struggle with my son's unmet expectaions and leaarn ways to cope and even live in his world.... I realized this:

Gifted is not just academic,

Its a state of mind.