Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Parenting

  • Our Thorns and our Gifts

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    We just read The Case of the Deadly Desperados for my daughter’s book club. In the book, the narrator, P.K., is a “half breed” child living in the Old West. After his foster parents are murdered, he is chased around Virginia City by the killers, who want a letter that he has in his possession.…

  • Using the G-word with kids

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    This post was inspired by taking part in Natural Parents Network’s Carnival of Natural Parenting: Tough Conversations. One of the recurring themes that parents of gifted children hash and rehash is the question of whether we used the G-word (gifted) with our kids. It’s hard enough for parents to start using the words in their…

  • Dear 20-year-old self,

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    Dear 20-year-old self, I remember the day you knocked on the door of the artist. You were a college student, and you were taking a child language acquisition course. When the professor had given the assignment to find a child to observe, you asked, “How do I find a child?” The people you knew were…

  • Pesticides and child development

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    Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities is an excellent free newsletter aimed at parents of kids with learning disabilities and ADHD. I have generally found it to be a good resource. In this issue, they linked to an article about pesticides and children. Did you know that every human tested now has pesticides in their body…

  • Highly inappropriate, then and now

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    “That song is definitely not appropriate for children,” my ten-year-old daughter said to me the other day, hearing a song being played in a store. * My husband and I have been talking about the books we read as kids. Brave New World. 1984. Of Mice and Men. Great books, all about sex, much of…