Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child » (3RD)

Parents get guidelines on how to determine if their children are unusually gifted, and how to prepare them for school. Here are recommendations to ensure that gifted children are sufficiently challenged in the classroom. The author also gives advice on dealing with emotional stresses that intellectually gifted children often feel. She emphasizes the importance of maintaining a child's emotional adjustment in school, and among siblings, friends, and all family members. This new edition includes a chapter on gifted children and technology, and expands on the topic of gender issues that can affect gifted children's achievement. Books in Barron's easy-to-read series of Parenting Keys contain advice and information on a wide range of child-related subjects, written by experts in psychology, physical health, education, and social and personal development. Parenting Keys help parents raise healthy, happy, productive, and well-adjusted children in the demanding contemporary environment.

Part One: Your Gifted Child

1. So Your Child Is Gifted?
2. Early Childhood Testing
3. Selecting a Preschool
4. When to Start Kindergarten
5. Enhancing Learning in the Family
6. Learning to Love Reading
7. School Identification of Giftedness
8. Individual Evaluations
9. Subject Acceleration and Individualized Instruction
10. Grade Skipping
11. School Ability Grouping
12. Home Schooling and Enrichment
13. Homework Habits
14. Parent-School Communication
15. Challenge Alternatives for Gifted Tweens and Teens
16. Special College Adjustment for Gifted Students
17. Career Direction and Selection

Part Two: Family Issues for Gifted Children

18. First and Only Children
19. Parenting with a United Front
20. Parent Support Groups and National Organizations
21. Sibling Relationships
22. Sibling Rivalry
23. Grandparents and Other Relatives
24. Single Parenting and Divorce
25. Blending Families

Part Three: Other Issues

26. Praise and Positive Reinforcement
27. Creativity, Pretending, and Lying
28. Competition at Home and in the Classroom
29. Perfectionism
30. Gifted Children with Disabilities
31. Talent in the Arts
32. Risk-Taking for Inhibited Gifted Children
33. Creative Thinking
34. Underachievement
35. Creative Underachievers
36. Gender Issues for Girls
37. Gender Issues for Boys
38. Peer Pressure
39. Grade Pressures and Tension
40. Computers and the Internet
41. Profoundly Gifted Children
42. Gifted Schools
Important Principles
Questions and Answers
Resources