Infinity and Zebra Stripes: Life With Gifted Children

by Wendy Skinner

All children deserve an appropriate educational challenge but frustrating barriers and unexpected surprises often prevent this from happening. This is why parents need to speak up and effectively advocate for their children. In Infinity and Zebra Stripes, Wendy Skinner shares her family's story of struggle and eventual success in working with the school system to meet her children s needs. Enlightening anecdotes of the author s experience demonstrate strategies for minimizing parent-school conflict. Learn how to build trusting relationships with teachers and administrators, and how your voice can change your child's life.

Genres: Education

169 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2007

Reviews

[Kirsten]

I had high hopes for the book. As a teacher of gifted students, parent of a gifted child, and someone who went through gifted education programs, I am always looking for books to recommend to parents. Instead, there were frequent self-reminders that the author was just trying to be the best advocate for her children. There were an excessive amount of examples to mark how gifted her children were. It drew away from the journey she was trying to illustrate.

[Sarah]

Mother's reflections on learning her children were gifted...ended up browsing, did not hold my attention.

[Marianna]

First this book needed a better copy editor.

I felt like at times she came off as a little too much of a braggart with some of the anecdotes she included.

[Summer]

Fun memoir about raising two highly gifted children. This ended up depressing me because these kids had so many more options available to them then when I was a kid, and because here I am all grown up and my brain isn't as nimble anymore and I've lost my creativity and I just sit on the couch all evening reading comics, but that doesn't mean that this isn't a good book.