Guiding the Gifted Child: A Practical Source for Parents and Teachers
This book has the intent to increase the awareness of parents, teachers and others working with gifted children particularly to recognize that these children and their families have special emotional needs and opportunities that are quite often overlooked and, thus, neglected. Most often this neglect results “only” in unfulfilled potential and missed enjoyments — but
This book has the intent to increase the awareness of parents, teachers and others working with gifted children particularly to recognize that these children and their families have special emotional needs and opportunities that are quite often overlooked and, thus, neglected. Most often this neglect results “only” in unfulfilled potential and missed enjoyments — but sometimes it leads blatanly to misery and depression. Loving our children just is not enough. As in other jobs that require management roles, we have to know what we are doing!
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Super helpful for parents of all kids Solid read. Helpful for all parents, by the way. Helps to keep the fact that you’re dealing with a child – a little developing person- in mind over and above a gifted child. Lots of long-term insight, interactions/thoughts for dealing with other sib!ings. Worth the read
Helps you to understand your child When my daughter was five years old, I was at a point where I was pulling my hair out because I could not understand many of her behaviors and viewpoints. She could argue like a Philadelphia lawyer and win. Her emotions were set to “high” all of the time and she was hyper-sensitive. I knew that she was way above average in her abilities since she was an infant, but didn’t realize that many of her other traits came along with her gifts.I had read a few other books on the subject,…
You can tell it’s written by 3 authors but is one of the better in this area of study. The only thing that makes the book a bit of a tough read is the different styles of it’s contributors. For a paragraph or two you are reading quality material, and in the next you are suddenly reading common sense fluff. “Mom and apple pie” type statements as I like to call them where the autor(s) tell you you’re ok, your kid is ok, and everyone is gifted. I prefer whoever contributed the actually useful material of stats on gifted children, what to look for and how to help the…