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How to Support a High Potential Child (HPE) Through Their School Journey

Understanding What Your Child Really Needs Parenting a high potential child (HPE) can feel like walking a tightrope. On one hand, your child may outpace their peers in certain subjects, offering answers you never expected from a 7-year-old. On the other hand, school might frustrate or bore them, leading to

Gifted or High Potential? Understanding the Real Differences in Your Child's Development

When Your Child Feels 'Different' — And You’re Trying to Find the Words If you’re reading this, chances are you’re trying to support a child who seems sharp, sensitive, or simply out of sync with their school environment. Maybe they’re breezing through homework one day

Creative Ways to Engage a High Potential Child (HPE) at Home

Understanding the Unique Needs of HPE Children If you're parenting a child with high intellectual potential (HPE), you’ve likely noticed how their mind sparks in directions that seem months—or years—ahead of their classmates. These children, with their deep curiosity and emotional intensity, often face challenges

What Are the Characteristics of High Intellectual Potential (HPE) Children Ages 6 to 12?

Understanding the World Through Their Eyes You're sitting at the dinner table, and your 7-year-old is asking why humans dream or how time works in space. Part of you is amazed. The other part is exhausted, because that same child refuses to focus during math homework and melts

How to Help a High-Potential Child Embrace Their Uniqueness

Understanding What It Means to Be HPE If you’re raising a child with High Intellectual Potential (HPE), chances are you’ve already experienced both awe and exhaustion. Maybe your child asks endless questions about the universe at bedtime or bursts into tears over injustices most children their age wouldn’

Is Your Child Bored at School? Understanding the Signs of High Intellectual Potential (HPE)

When school isn’t enough: A parent’s quiet worry Sometimes, it begins with a simple remark at dinner: "School is boring." Other times, it shows up in unexpected ways—frequent daydreaming in class, unfinished homework, or an unsettling sense that your child is tuning out from learning

How to Recognize a High-Potential Child (HPE) Between Ages 6 and 12

What Does It Mean to Be a High-Potential Child? If you're reading this, chances are you're a parent who's deeply attuned to your child’s world. Maybe you’ve noticed that your child asks questions that make you pause, or perhaps they seem light-years

Can a Dyslexic Child Learn to Love Reading?

When Reading Feels Like a Battle “I just don’t like books.” If you’ve heard your child say this—and especially if they’re dyslexic—it might sting a little more deeply. You know how important reading is, not just for school, but for imagining new worlds, dreaming big

How Stories Can Help Dyslexic Children Understand Lessons More Easily

When Reading Stops Making Sense Every evening, you sit down beside your child, homework in hand. You’ve cleared distractions, taken a deep breath, and opened the textbook. But within minutes, the sighs begin. The eyes drift. The frustration builds. If you're raising a child with dyslexia, this

What Not to Say or Do: Common Mistakes Parents Make with a Dyslexic Child

When Love Leads Us Astray: The Honest Mistakes We Make If you're reading this, chances are you're that devoted, tired parent who’s staying up late trying to decode dyslexia—trying to help your child thrive in a school system that often feels like it wasn&

Should You Repeat Lessons More Often to Help a Dyslexic Child?

Why repetition feels like the only option — and why it's not always enough You're sitting at the kitchen table again. It's late. Your child’s math notebook is open, but they're fidgeting, zoning out, and you're already thinking about that

How the Brain of a Dyslexic Child Processes Information Differently

Understanding Your Child’s Unique Way of Learning When your child stares blankly at their homework—or worse, gets frustrated and storms away—it’s easy to wonder what’s really going on inside their head. Especially if they’ve been diagnosed with dyslexia or are showing signs of it.

Does Dyslexia Change How a Child Learns? Understanding the Impact and Supporting Their Journey

When learning feels different—and hard If you're the parent of a child with dyslexia, perhaps you've had evenings where you sat next to them at the kitchen table, going over spelling words again and again, only to see frustration, tears, or outright shutdown. You might

My Child Has Dyslexia: How to Avoid Homework Meltdowns

When Homework Becomes a Battlefield “Come on,” you plead gently. “Just try to read it again.” Your child stares blankly at the page. The minutes tick by. Eventually, eyes well up, the book slams shut, and what was meant to be 15 minutes of homework becomes an hour-long power struggle.

How Audiobooks Can Unlock Learning for Children with Dyslexia

When Reading Becomes a Daily Struggle If you're the parent of a child with dyslexia, you probably know what it's like to sit at the kitchen table, homework spread out, your child slumped in frustration, maybe even in tears. The page remains unread, the lesson unlearned.

How to Know If Your Child Is Progressing Despite Dyslexia

When progress isn’t obvious—but it’s still happening If you’re parenting a child with dyslexia, you’ve likely already become an expert in patience, encouragement, and creative problem-solving. But even with the best of intentions, many parents find themselves asking the same painful question late at night:

Reading and Dyslexia: When to Use Audiobooks and Listening Tools for Your Child

Understanding the Struggle: Reading Isn't Just About Letters When your child struggles with dyslexia, reading is more than just decoding letters and sounding out words. It can be exhausting — for both of you. You see the frustration in their eyes after ten minutes of trying to get through

How to Create Personalized Quizzes That Really Help Your Dyslexic Child Revise

When revision feels like an uphill battle If you're parenting a child with dyslexia, you likely know all too well how revision can quickly spiral into frustration and tears. Maybe you've spent hours re-explaining a lesson that just won't stick. Or maybe your child

How to Help Your Dyslexic Child Retain Lessons More Easily

Learning Doesn’t Have to Feel Like a Battle “I read it with him three times last night and he still couldn’t remember it this morning.” If this sounds familiar, you're not alone. Many parents of children with dyslexia find themselves exhausted from re-explaining lessons night after

Does Your Dyslexic Child in Primary School Need a PAP or a PPS?

Understanding What Your Child Really Needs If your child has been diagnosed with dyslexia, chances are you’ve heard terms like PAP (Plan d’Accompagnement Personnalisé) and PPS (Projet Personnalisé de Scolarisation) thrown around by teachers or specialists. You may have even sat through tense school meetings trying to understand

How to Adapt Homework at Home for Your Dyslexic Child

When Homework Becomes a Battle It’s 6:30 p.m. Dinner is cleared away, and you take a deep breath before announcing, "It’s homework time." Your eight-year-old slumps in the chair, already defeated. The worksheet stares back like an enemy. Every word seems to crawl across

Why Dyslexia Can Make Learning English Extra Challenging—for Your Child and for You

Understanding Why English Feels So Hard for Your Dyslexic Child You're sitting across from your child at the kitchen table. Again. That stack of English homework feels like a mountain neither of you wants to climb. The tears come easily—sometimes theirs, sometimes yours. You want to help,

How to Talk to Your Child About Dyslexia Without Hurting Their Confidence

When a label feels like a burden Amanda sat on the edge of her son's bed, holding a crinkled sheet of paper in one hand — the diagnosis she'd feared and half-expected: dyslexia. Her son, Max, was only eight, but school had already become a daily struggle

Understanding the Emotional Impact of Dyslexia on Children

What Dyslexia Really Feels Like for a Child If you're a parent of a child with dyslexia, you may already know the academic journey can be tough. But beyond the difficulties with reading, spelling, or writing, there's another layer that often goes unspoken—how it feels

How to Spot Early Signs of Dyslexia at Home Before a Diagnosis

Understanding the Quiet Struggle You’re sitting at the kitchen table, watching your child wrestle with their homework again. The letters seem to float off the page for them, and what should be a short reading assignment becomes a stressful ordeal. You offer help, encouragement, maybe even a snack—as