Lisa Rivero
The following two resources may be useful in helping children to manage their feelings as they learn about the extent of the earthquake in Japan and the resulting tsunami: Helping Gifted Children Cope with Global Disasters (by the National Association for Gifted Children) “Recently, I asked these children to tell me what they felt was …
It’s Bookmarkable Friday Saturday! As someone who does creative work, how do you handle inevitable periods of dejection? Write your way through it? Ignore it until it goes away? Re-visit your goals? Focus on gratitude? Sit with the feeling in a mindful way? Take some planned time off (different from giving up in exasperation)? Seek …
I am honored to be Bree Ogden’s Hot Blogger this month! Please head over to This Literary Life where you can read suggestions for encouraging young writing talent. Because I focus on tips for children who are not struggling with diagnosable learning difficulties, I also want to recommend the excellent article “Stealth Dyslexia & Writing,” …
Do you avoid having a daily routine for fear that it will stifle your creativity? As someone who enjoys—almost craves—flexibility, I used to avoid routine, well, routinely. Then I discovered the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who argues that people who use their creativity successfully often have strict, daily routines that free their minds to do …
Will and I are alone tonight, and I do not know what to do with these supper scraps, these pork chop bones with good meat still on them and potato peelings and gravy scraped from the pan, now that Whisker’s old dented, metal dish is gone.