“While it can be rewarding to raise an extremely bright child — quick, curious, sensitive, and introspective — it’s also a daunting challenge. Parents need insight into their own motivations (as well as those of their children), and the courage and ability to make tough decisions about their child’s development. Raising Gifted Kids will help
“While it can be rewarding to raise an extremely bright child — quick, curious, sensitive, and introspective — it’s also a daunting challenge. Parents need insight into their own motivations (as well as those of their children), and the courage and ability to make tough decisions about their child’s development. Raising Gifted Kids will help parents understand and cope with the obstacles they face in raising a gifted child, and help them make the best choices for their son’s or daughter’s growth and happiness. This upbeat and practical book reveals how parents can: * help develop their child’s potential and self-esteem without pressuring them * plan their child’s education * work optimally with schools and teachers * recognize and prevent problems * solve family conflicts over parenting issues * avoid the dangers of living vicariously through their child’s accomplishments * and much more Filled with proven solutions to the unique challenges of raising gifted kids, this book is the powerful yet accessible resource parents have long wished for.”
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A valuable and informative book I bought this book AND had a phone conference with this author quite awhile ago. However, I have been so busy with both of my gifted children that I have not had the time to write a review. I do not agree with any of the negative comments regarding this book or this author. Giftedness can not be neatly contained within the pages of one book. It is a variant of the population that is not championed as a “need” like ASD is, but can have many overlapping similarities. What I found useful…
Well, not everything It was a decent book, but not a lot of new information for me. For the most part, it simply confirmed some basics I have long believed in – not living out your dreams through your children, encouraging exploration without forcing achievement, the need to provide for additional means of learning, etc. A lot of time spent on selecting schools for gifted kids, which really doesn’t apply in small towns like we live in. Some good chapters on different kinds of gifted children and some scattered…
Helpful Information I found this book extremely helpful in identifying ways to help my gifted twins, one of whom is a traditional learner and the other is not. The book has great insight and information, plus plenty of real-world examples of how parents deal with issues unique to gifted children. One puzzling thing, though, was the notion that there’s an anti-gifted bias and that parents of gifted children are somehow seen by educators as meddlers or pushy parents. The author also seems to have the idea that…