Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

What's the best environment for the gifted child? Join Mike Smith on today's Home School Heartbeat as he talks about the challenges faced by gifted children.

Mike Smith:
This week, we're talking about the gifted child and how parents are deciding the best way to provide gifted children with a solid education.


Most people agree that children face more difficulties today than in previous generations. Family breakdown and the entertainment industry certainly bring pressure and the wrong message to children, and this is played out in the public schools daily.


But an added burden is to be gifted. Gifted children are often bullied and teased at public school.


Many parents who have gifted children have recognized that the public school is unable to adequately serve their child's needs. Based upon our experience at HSLDA, we believe that there are a large percentage of gifted children that are currently being homeschooled. Homeschooling is the choice more and more parents of gifted children are making. The home environment allows the gifted child to develop apart from the limiting academic and social environment of the public schools.


Please join us next time when we examine how gifted children are being shortchanged in institutional schools. And until that time, I'm Mike Smith.