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Make Education Strategies for Gifted Children Work for Your Homeschool Gifted Strategies That Help Every Homeschooler! When my first son was born and my midwife handed him to me, she gave me the best and only advice I needed for being a parent, "Know your child and trust yourself." That advice continued to be true throughout our child-rearing days, even when we were faced with the challenges of raising gifted children. In addition to being a huge blessing, a gifted child (and later a gifted teen) can also a challenge! What Are Gifted Children Like? They learn more, They learn faster, They learn at an earlier age, They remember more, They understand abstract concepts earlier, They have multiple passions and interests, They may excel at homeschool testing (but not necessarily), They can do multiple things at once-and do them all well. You may already know what parenting gifted kids is like. Let me assure you that you have what it takes to create the perfect school for gifted students, as well as those more "inside the bell-curve." That's because you are the love-giver and not just a care-giver. You are the person chosen and created for this job, just in the same way your child was chosen and created for your family. Here's Why You Need This Book: This is not just another "gifted child book." This book covers eight different strategies for teaching smart homeschool students, including concepts like acceleration, compacting, enriching, and specialization. Homeschooling gifted children also brings questions about when to graduate them, whether to utilize community college, and whether Ivy League schools would be appropriate. While the strategies in this book were developed for gifted children, they will work for every child and help every family get the most out of their homeschool! Gifted Education Strategies, is part of The H