The Word Gifted Is A Grenade

Gifted evokes images of privilege, special treatment and unearned advantage. The gods of intelligence do not sound the trumpets when a high-IQ child is born. Brain fairies do not descend upon the delivery room with magical IQ dust.

Tireless Teenage Boys are the Starter Kit to Lunacy

I think about drafting an apology letter to the parents of each teenage boy and wonder what is the most tactful way of saying, “I did my best and realize now I should have hired an onsite paramedic and triage station for the living room. Whoops. My bad.”