Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children provides a humorous, engaging, and encouraging look at raising gifted children today. James R. Delisle, Ph.D., offers practical, down-to-earth advice that will cause parents to reexamine the ways they perceive and relate to their children. Dr. Delisle puts forward 10 tips to parents of gifted
Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children provides a humorous, engaging, and encouraging look at raising gifted children today. James R. Delisle, Ph.D., offers practical, down-to-earth advice that will cause parents to reexamine the ways they perceive and relate to their children.
Dr. Delisle puts forward 10 tips to parents of gifted children―ideas that reflect attitude and approach and allow for introspection and change, rather than quick, do-it-tonight solutions. Some topics of interest include understanding a child’s giftedness, working with the school system, dealing with perfectionism in gifted kids, and being adult role models for children. Along the way, stories from gifted children and their parents provide insight into the lives of these individuals.
What sets this book apart from other books for parents of gifted kids is its expansion beyond mere platitudes. Dr. Delisle’s tips go beyond the basics, focusing on attitude, reflection, and subtle changes, rather than specific, cookie-cutter recipes for action. The 10 tips suggested and expanded upon in this book include:
understanding what giftedness is . . . and what it is not;understanding the differences between gifted kids and their agemates;understanding the personality traits of gifted kids, including overexcitabilities;taking charge of your child’s education;understanding the issue of perfectionism in gifted kids;examining social nuances and myths related to giftedness;examining the similarities parents share with their gifted children;setting reasonable goals;helping gifted children make a difference in the lives of others; andremembering that gifted children are kids first and gifted second.
Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented 2007 Legacy Book Award Winner – Parenting
Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children by teacher, counselor, college professor, and parent James R. Delisle is an expert collection of tactful and educated approaches to children. Deftly examining and exploring the findings of child-psychology and his experiences of over thirty years of working with children, Professor Delisle offers his readers a cogent understanding of giftedness in children, how to work with the school system, dealing with perfectionism in gifted children, being an adult role model for children, building a child’s character, and helping kids achieve their goals and dreams. For its clear, concise, and incalcuable practical information, Parenting Gifted Kids is very highly recommended for all parents, counselors, and teachers of a gifted child.
–James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book ReviewParenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children provides a humorous, engaging, and encouraging look at raising gifted children in our world today. Jim Delisle, well-known for his experience in the area of social and emotional needs of gifted children, once again comes to the rescue of parents by offering practical, down-to-earth advice that is very likely to challenge parents to reexamine the ways they perceive and relate to their children.
–Gifted Child Today, Vol. 29, No. 4, Fall 2006
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Stop wasting your child’s time and intellect. Avoid underachievement. The well written Chapter 2 “Better At vs. Better Than” seems to conflict with the author’s desire that gifted children (and adults) wear the title “Gifted” on their sleeves. It does appear to be useful for teachers and administrators to label certain learners as “gifted,” but in general conversation I think I prefer that family, friends, and educators refer to my child according to his specific gifts, rather than just throw around the elitist and nebulous “gifted” title; when you read the…
Informative, great advice. After wasting too much time searching through loads of websites for information, I settled on this book, and another, “Giftedness 101” by Linda Silverman.This book is the fast starter, quickly getting into why and how the kids are different, and how to help them. In learning about the kids, many adults learn they themselves were the same as kids and still are the same. Good advice on how to speak to gifted kids, what not to say, and how to advocate for your kids. Not all…
Very Informative and Revealing! I got this book to better understand my granddaughter who is profoundly gifted. I was surprised to find that it also explained the “quirkiness” of my husband! He is also gifted though maybe not profoundly so, but after 32 years of marriage I didn’t think a book could help me understand my HUSBAND more! Wow! If you are attempting to find solutions to your “problem” child, this book MAY help. It taught me to be more persistent in my advocacy of my granddaughter.