| Description |
vii, 213 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Revised edition of the author's Parenting gifted kids, c2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out provides an engaging and encouraging look at raising gifted children today. A follow-up to the best-selling "Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children," this new edition focuses on the social and emotional aspects of giftedness, highlighting new information on the issues of perfectionism, self-advocacy, underachievement, mindfulness, and the impact of technology on gifted kids' relationships. The book also features a section on life beyond college, for those readers whose children are no longer children. Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out features real-life stories about the lives of gifted children and how they and their parents recognize and enjoy the many intellectual talents and social and emotional insights they possess. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Understand what giftedness is . . . and what it is not -- Know the distinction between "better at" and "better than" -- Stop paying interest on a bill you never owed -- Your gifted child's education: getting it right -- Appreciate that less than perfect is more than acceptable -- Living the nuanced life -- Deep roots, long branches: using the past to understand the present -- Write your dreams in pencil -- Make a life, not just a living -- Life is not a race to see who can get to the end the fastest -- References -- Resources -- About the author. |
| Subject |
Gifted children.
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Parents of gifted children.
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Parenting.
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Gifted children -- Education.
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Education -- Parent participation.
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Education -- Parent participation.
(OCoLC)fst00902710
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Gifted children. (OCoLC)fst00942561
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Gifted children -- Education.
(OCoLC)fst00942566
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Parenting. (OCoLC)fst01053407
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Parents of gifted children. (OCoLC)fst01053514
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| Added Title |
Parenting gifted kids.
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Guide to the social and emotional lives of gifted kids |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Delisle, James R., 1953- author. Understanding your gifted child from the inside out Waco, TX : Prufrock Press Inc., [2018] 9781618218094 (DLC) 2018043510 |
| ISBN |
9781618218087 (paperback) |
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1618218085 (paperback) |
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