OurFirstMarriage #80: Quantity vs Quality

A short technical discussion about why OFM sounds better than ever (not that we got complaints but that’s Tom). The rules for Iron Chef – OFM are discussed and opened up to the peanut gallery (that’s you). Tom asks Tanel a serious question. Tom shares a story about a restaurant so bad that he recognized [...]


Gifted Education in Elementary School

To recap, my last post detailed my daughter’s initial screening for entry into her elementary school’s gifted program. Our county school district web page (in Florida) was not helpful. I did some Internet research and found the results to be informative, but extremely varied and contradictory. Here are a few web sites that I used [...]


Gifted – what does that mean????

My daughter is in kindergarten, and was recently referred for an initial assessment for eligibility to the gifted program at her elementary school. The screening is called Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT). I asked her how she liked the first evaluation, and she said she was a little bit shy, but that she knew the [...]