Being the parent of a smart child is great – until your son or daughter starts asking whether global warming is real, if you are going to die, and what will happen if they don’t get into college. Kids who are advanced intellectually often let their imaginations run wild and experience fears beyond their years.
Being the parent of a smart child is great – until your son or daughter starts asking whether global warming is real, if you are going to die, and what will happen if they don’t get into college. Kids who are advanced intellectually often let their imaginations run wild and experience fears beyond their years. So what can you do to help?
In Why Smart Kids Worry, Allison Edwards guides you through the mental and emotional process of where your child’s fears come from and why they are so hard to move past. Edwards focuses on how to parent a child who is both smart and anxious and brings her years of experience as a therapist to give you the answers to questions such as:
How do smart kids think differently?
Should I let my child watch the nightly news on TV?
How do I answer questions about terrorists, hurricanes, and other scary subjects?
Edwards’s 15 specially designed tools for helping smart kids manage their fears will help you and your child work together to help him or her to become more relaxed and worry-free.
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Great and useful tool for parents A must have for parents with a smart kid! I don’t mean gifted, which your child may very well be (and this would be useful), but emotionally inteligent, inquisitive, and observant. It’s for all those parents who just don’t know what to do with their kid that is anxious, worried, or socially not getting it-be seem to “get it” in other areas. I am a professional counselor but when it comes to my own kids, it’s a challenge, even with the education and experience! Why? Becuase my…
Fantastic Easy Read with Great Explanations and Usable Tools This book did a great job of explaining anxiety in children. I recognized them (and me at 6!) in their expamples and it was helpful to understand how their brains work in these situation.I have 6 year old girl and boy twins. I bought it for my son’s anxiety, but realized that my daughter also has some anxiety. It was just a different type than her brother and more difficult to recognize. I’m able to keep an eye on it more closely. First part of the book presents children…
Informative and helpful! Thank you! This book was recommended to me by a friend of the author’s and has been an extremely helpful read. Not only has it helped me understand where my kids’ worries are coming from, but also how they process worry and how it manifests itself. I feel much more confident about how to parent my kids through their worries without unintentionally contributing to them. I’ve already purchased additional copies of this book for other members of my family.