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The Tao of Blogging

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I couldn’t have planned it if I tried, but I received a letter today from a mother that provides all the reason I need to keep promoting the value and importance of blogs. Naturally, I forwarded the email to Mr. Feagler and Ted Diadiun as an FYI.

Here are relevant excerpts:

Subject: Your blog entry on the NY Times Magazine article on gifted kids. [hyperlink is my addition]

Hello!

I came across your blog by searching on Technorati for “gifted children”and read your excellent retort to the problematic NY Times magazine piece. I know it might seem very odd to write a total stranger based on a blog entry — but the reason I was doing such a search near midnight on a Sunday night is that our (toddler) daughter is very different from her 17 month old peers….

What I am trying to figure out is what resources parents of other gifted kids find valuable? What lessons, advice and wisdom is out there from those who have already navigated these waters….The concerns and questions we have as parents are more and more often diverging from the other playgroup moms’ we spend time with. My pediatrician shrugs and laughs at our appointments while she suggests that it will be “easy for her to become bilingual, which is a plus.” Yeah, no kidding :-) As I search on google, I find that most resources, Internet info, etc. for gifted kids all are for older kids….there seems to be a surprising dearth of commentaries, observations and insights about the early years of raising gifted (or profoundly gifted) kids.

…I suppose I am just lurching through cyberspace looking for any insight I can into what challenges and pitfalls lie ahead… It is funny, before the Internet if one had a child that was “1 in 250,000″ (and I really don’t know if our daughter is gifted or profoundly gifted, but just to make the larger point…) one would most certainly be all alone in that prospect in the physical community s/he resided in. But in this era of instant communication and powerful search engines and the net, the hope for camaraderie among the 1 in 250,000 isn’t even an
unrealistic goal! Wow!

So, I suppose, in a round about way, this is a “hello” and an _expression of hope that you will post more about your experiences– if I can be greedy, especially the early experiences :-) — with your son on your blog. Either way, your blog will definitely become a regular read for me on my blog list! Thanks and all the best,

Talk about getting chills.

Thank me? I thank her.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:17 pm December 12th, 2005 in Politics | 3 Comments 

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The Tao of Blogging

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I couldn’t have planned it if I tried, but I received a letter today from a mother that provides all the reason I need to keep promoting the value and importance of blogs. Naturally, I forwarded the email to Mr. Feagler and Ted Diadiun as an FYI.

Here are relevant excerpts:

Subject: Your blog entry on the NY Times Magazine article on gifted kids. [hyperlink is my addition]

Hello!

I came across your blog by searching on Technorati for “gifted children”and read your excellent retort to the problematic NY Times magazine piece. I know it might seem very odd to write a total stranger based on a blog entry — but the reason I was doing such a search near midnight on a Sunday night is that our (toddler) daughter is very different from her 17 month old peers….

What I am trying to figure out is what resources parents of other gifted kids find valuable? What lessons, advice and wisdom is out there from those who have already navigated these waters….The concerns and questions we have as parents are more and more often diverging from the other playgroup moms’ we spend time with. My pediatrician shrugs and laughs at our appointments while she suggests that it will be “easy for her to become bilingual, which is a plus.” Yeah, no kidding :-) As I search on google, I find that most resources, Internet info, etc. for gifted kids all are for older kids….there seems to be a surprising dearth of commentaries, observations and insights about the early years of raising gifted (or profoundly gifted) kids.

…I suppose I am just lurching through cyberspace looking for any insight I can into what challenges and pitfalls lie ahead… It is funny, before the Internet if one had a child that was “1 in 250,000″ (and I really don’t know if our daughter is gifted or profoundly gifted, but just to make the larger point…) one would most certainly be all alone in that prospect in the physical community s/he resided in. But in this era of instant communication and powerful search engines and the net, the hope for camaraderie among the 1 in 250,000 isn’t even an
unrealistic goal! Wow!

So, I suppose, in a round about way, this is a “hello” and an _expression of hope that you will post more about your experiences– if I can be greedy, especially the early experiences :-) — with your son on your blog. Either way, your blog will definitely become a regular read for me on my blog list! Thanks and all the best,

Talk about getting chills.

Thank me? I thank her.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:17 pm December 12th, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off 

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12

The Feagler Award (NOT originated by me)

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I have nothing to do with this new competition (scroll down a bit). It turned up during my Technorati search on “feagler” which I conducted because I wanted to see how far afield Mr. Feagler’s 12/11/05 column has gone. I can understand why someone would suggest this competition, in jest, but along the theme of this letter I wrote about the column, the competition idea is also unnecessarily mean. (I’ve always hated the proliferation of mean, even before I was a parent, but especially now because I am a parent.)

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:35 pm December 12th, 2005 in Politics | 5 Comments 

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The Feagler Award (NOT originated by me)

Filed Under Politics | 5 Comments

I have nothing to do with this new competition (scroll down a bit). It turned up during my Technorati search on “feagler” which I conducted because I wanted to see how far afield Mr. Feagler’s 12/11/05 column has gone. I can understand why someone would suggest this competition, in jest, but along the theme of this letter I wrote about the column, the competition idea is also unnecessarily mean. (I’ve always hated the proliferation of mean, even before I was a parent, but especially now because I am a parent.)

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:35 am December 12th, 2005 in Politics | 5 Comments 

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12

The Feagler Award (NOT originated by me)

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I have nothing to do with this new competition (scroll down a bit). It turned up during my Technorati search on “feagler” which I conducted because I wanted to see how far afield Mr. Feagler’s 12/11/05 column has gone. I can understand why someone would suggest this competition, in jest, but along the theme of this letter I wrote about the column, the competition idea is also unnecessarily mean. (I’ve always hated the proliferation of mean, even before I was a parent, but especially now because I am a parent.)

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:35 am December 12th, 2005 in Politics | Comments Off 

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