Jen Merrill's Blog, page 15
June 23, 2016
Parenting Teenagers
Don’t you wish there was a magazineall about parenting teenagers? Kinda like the mags you’d read in the middle of the night, nursing an infant? Fear not! I mocked one up for you! Enjoy.
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June 15, 2016
A dose of Vitamin Get The F*ck Outside
I’ve been doing a lot of gardening lately. Last year we spent the spring and summer just watching to see what would pop out of the ground. Watched to see where the sun would fall during the day and season, watched to see where the water pooled and where it ran off quickly, watched to …
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June 9, 2016
gifted and averages
It is summer here in Chicago. You wouldn’t know it today, with thecool temperatures and rain, but it’s most definitely summer. Tomorrow it’s expected that the temps will hit the 90s for the first time in many months. It’s unusual to get that high that early in the season, and while I guess I should …
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May 31, 2016
The awesome weirdness of gifted kids
Gifted kids be weird, yo. If you have one, or have spent any time around one, or teach one, you know this. They are the quirkiest, funniest, weirdest creatures around. And if you can step away from the challenging behaviors and parental angst, they’reawesome. It’s taken me a long time to get to this point, …
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May 27, 2016
No title because no brain
It went a little something like this: “Captain, we’ve had a corebreach.” “What? Scotty, explain!” “Levels were high but all within normal limits. Engineering was working to bring them lower when BOOM we were hit. Half my team is down, there is matter and anti-matter everywhere, the place is a mess. I blame the Glutens …
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May 16, 2016
Keepin’ it real as a 2e parent
Admittedly, I got cocky. Things were going so well. One kid rockin’ it as a homeschooler, the other rolling along in middle school (BRAG ALERT: honor roll every quarter so far, and it is within his grasp to get straight As this quarter). I wrote a love letter to giftedness, I acknowledged that G2e teens/tweens …
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May 11, 2016
Real Life Scaffolding
That’s a picture of my flute right there. Notice anything unusual? Yes, the headjoint is pretty smeary, I hadn’t wiped it down yet. And the lighting isn’t the best, it’s beenfoggyall morning. Oh! That white thing snapped onto that bar? What’s that? That’s my real life scaffolding. Technically it’s called a c# extension and …
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April 20, 2016
Sixteen things parents of gifted kids are sick of hearing (and what they’re thinking when they do)
Must be nice to have a gifted kid. Heh. Yeah, so nice. It’s just…hysterical giggle…awesome. Everything is just so….sob….easy peasy. Please offer me free respite care for a few days and then we will talk again; my brain may be back online by then. If he’s so gifted, why can’t s/he
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Speak your truth!
Speak your truth, they say. So I will. Because they said so. As the executive function for the entire household, the frontal lobe of the House of Chaos, I am drowning under the mass onslaught of everyday life, dragged under by the tidal wave of four intense lives. There is too much life in …
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April 14, 2016
Fifteen
So my baby is 15 today. The boy who made me a mom, who dragged me into the life of giftedness and advocacy and writing, the boy who made Calvin a real life child in my life…is 15. And, of course, he’s still sleeping. He’s become an amazing teen. I enjoy him more now than …
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