When is life like a prize fight, a garden, and a quiz show, all hurtling down the road on an office chair, wrapped in song? When you’re living in the land of the gifted and twice exceptional.Jen Merrill, author of the “Laughing at Chaos” blog, brings laughter, tears, and honesty to her latest book by
When is life like a prize fight, a garden, and a quiz show, all hurtling down the road on an office chair, wrapped in song? When you’re living in the land of the gifted and twice exceptional.Jen Merrill, author of the “Laughing at Chaos” blog, brings laughter, tears, and honesty to her latest book by GHF Press, “If This is a Gift, Can I Send it Back?: Surviving in the Land of the Gifted and Twice Exceptional.” Join Jen on her journey through discovery, understanding, and acceptance, as she copes with the challenges that only the gifted and twice exceptional can create.So, pull up a chair, pour a glass of wine, and start reading. You’ll swear Jen’s written about you!
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If This is a Gift, Can I Send it Back? This is a ‘Must Read’ book for parents and families of gifted kids, with or without twice-exceptionality. This book is extremely, and humorously accurate, about what could be most devastating to a family like mine; but the author has delivered in the most cheerful and positive way for celebration. If you have a gifted and 2e child, I guarantee you to be able, to laugh and cry along, with reading this book. When you finish reading it, you will find a whole new world out there waiting to receive…
Gifted = Wiring. Yup. Raising these kids is so so so very different than raising a high achieving straight A kid. The latter is what everything thinks gifted means but it’s so not. Gifted = wiring. This books is a hilarious take on day to day life with these complex kids and the unique educational paths that must be carved to protect and nurture them while managing societal expectations that these kids are not designed to meet. I like that she speaks to the mothers and their incredible strength and flexibility that…
Did she write this about my kid?! Jen hits the nail on the head in this book. I read it cover to cover, laughing the whole time. It so perfectly captures the experience of parenting a 2E child. This is a support group in a book…no prescriptions or serious advice, just the feeling that someone else has been down this crazy road before you…and that it is okay to talk about it! That is very comforting.