This is a secular group for parents of gifted and/or highly gifted home schooled children, in the South Charlotte area.
Research has shown that it is very important for gifted children to interact with peers who think and play with the same complexity, interest and curiosity. This group is for parents who are interested in their child's social development, rather than socialization. With your participation, this group can be a place for parents to share ideas, an activity group for the kids and even a education coop.

QUOTES ON GIFTED CHILDREN:

The natural trajectory of giftedness in childhood is not a six-figure salary, perfect happiness, and a guaranteed place in Who's Who. It is the deepening of the personality, the strengthening of one's value system, the creation of greater and greater challenges for oneself, and the development of broader avenues for expressing compassion. – Counseling the Gifted and Talented, Dr. Linda K. Silverman, p. 22.

To understand highly gifted children it is essential to realize that, although they are children with the same basic needs as other children, they are very different. Adults cannot ignore or gloss over their differences without doing serious damage to these children, for the differences will not go away or be outgrown. They affect almost every aspect of these children's intellectual and emotional lives. A microscope analogy is one useful way of understanding extreme intelligence. If we say that all people look at the world through a lens, with some lenses cloudy or distorted, some clear, and some magnified, we might say that gifted individuals view the world through a microscope lens and the highly gifted view it through an electron microscope. They see ordinary things in very different ways and often see what others simply cannot see. Although there are advantages to this heightened perception, there are disadvantages as well. – Stephanie S. Tolan, Helping Your Highly Gifted Child