“Are Our Gifted Children Being Left Behind?”
Have you ever heard the saying, “He/She treats me like a stepchild?” Of course, when it is used, it is not meant to be a compliment. It meant that the stepchild was ignored, while all the biological children were fawned over by the parents.
I started thinking about this after I read an article in the Holiday 2011 Instructor magazine entitled, ”Challenge Your Top Students”. Soon after reading the article I had a conversation with my sis-in-law who runs a home daycare. She complained that the students she taught before they went to kindergarten were not