Dr. Dale Stuart helps parents understand their gifted child’s intense and difficult feelings, and offers guidance to help their children manage these difficult feelings. ...
Stephen Balzac discusses how many gifted children and adults experience a Cartesian Split: skilled and comfortable in intellectual pursuits, they find themselves awkward and frustrated when attempting physical activities such as sports or martial arts. Their feelings of frustration are compounded when they understand what they are supposed to do, but, no matter how hard they try, find themselves unable to do it. ...
In this article, Tracy Cross discusses gifted adolescents and depression and offers resources for further information. ...
Sharon Lind shows parents how to develop a "personal survival kit" with which they will begin to meet their own needs in an emotionally intense family and enable themselves to better meet the needs of others. ...
Dan Holt discusses ways to help parents help their students gain a new perspective on life by teaching ways of seeing humor in the world and using that humor to cope with stress. ...
Source: Davidison Young Scholar Seminar
One of the murkiest, yet most important areas associated with giftedness is the broad scope of social and emotional needs. In this Tip for Parents sheet, Dr. Robert A. Schultz covers a few of the topics discussed during a recent Bulletin Board seminar on the Social/Emotional Needs of the Highly/Profoundly Gifted Individual. ...
Source: Davidson Young Scholar Seminar
Dr. Amend gives important, straight-to-the-point tips for easing, and sometimes avoiding, your child's worrisome episodes. Amend states that strengthening the child's ability to handle stress and frustration is a gradual process and naturally requires the child to experience frustration along the way. ...
When people undergo a great trauma or other unsettling event—they have lost a job or a loved one dies, for example—their understanding of themselves or of their place in the world often disintegrates, and they temporarily "fall apart," experiencing a type of depression referred to as existential depression. ...
This article discusses how gifted children's sensitivity to events happening in their society and surrounding can often be isolating and frightening. This article outlines steps such as talking with your children and encouraging philanthropic values in order to help normalizes these feelings. ...
Written by Tracy Cross, this article examines the unique social and emotional perspectives of gifted students. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book review covers the content in both the adult and student editions of Coping for Capable Kids. The authors define giftedness and discuss its aspects at length. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This article contains three separate book reviews by three Davidson Young Scholars of Fighting Invisible Tigers: A Stress Management Guide for Teens. All three reviewers enjoyed the book and found helpful tips on dealing with stress. ...