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Developmental: Adolescence

Parenting Gifted Adolescents

This article provides parents numerous guidelines on their adoloescents' peer relationships, life skills, social behavior and more. ...

Parenting: Tips for Parents

Tips for Parents: Friendships of Gifted Elementary School Children

Dr. Fred Frankel explores issues that children who are gifted and talented have in making and keeping friendships and in getting along with peers. ...

Tips for Parents: How Gifted Children Impact the Family

Sylvia Rimm discusses how every child influences other children in the family, but because gifted children often attract so much attention and require extra resources, they can cause some special pressures for siblings, parents and even other relatives. ...

Tips for Parents: Social and Emotional Development in Gifted Children

Dr. Nadia Webb touches upon a few of the social/emotional issues that parents of gifted children deal with regularly. ...

Tips for Parents: Friendships, Teasing, Bullying and the Gifted Child (2006)

Source: Davidson Young Scholar Seminar
Dr. Fred Frankel (Professor of Medical Psychology and Director of the UCLA Parenting and Children's Friendship Program) offers insight on how children develop friendships and the differences in how boys and girls intereact with their friends. ...

Tips for Parents: Gifted Children’s Friendships (2005)

Source: Davidson Young Scholar Seminar
Miraca Gross' compilation is a must-read on how parents can help facilitate productive friendships for their gifted children and prevent them from becoming "loners." Gross stresses the importance of understanding the difference in a child's emotional and social development (compared to their age-peers) and how crucial this is to how parents cope with their child's upbringing. ...

Tips for Parents: How to Make and Keep Friends - Promoting Pro-Social Behavior

Source: Davidson Young Scholar Seminar
Kara McGoey discusses promoting the pro-social behavior of profoundly gifted children. Five themes are described along with specific strategies for promoting prosocial behavior. ...

Tips for Parents: The Role of Friendships in Life Challenges for Gifted and Talented Children

Source: Davidson Young Scholar Seminar
Dr. Fred Frankel, director of the UCLA Children's Friendship program, discusses the important role of friendships for gifted and talented children. ...

Tips for Parents: What to do About Bullying

Source: Davidson Young Scholar Seminar
Tom Letson, MA LPC NCC ia a fulltime NJ Public School Counselor and author of the internationally recognized bully reporting and information website, Bullystoppers.com. Find answers to such topics as deaing with your child's school, when/if to involve the police and when to involve the other parent when bullying is happening to your child. ...

Social/Emotional: General

When it comes to bullying, there are no boundaries

American policymakers have been urgently seeking solutions to school bullying and violence in recent years, but the issue had been receiving attention in many other countries long before it hit the U.S. spotlight. This article by Marianne D. Hurst discusses how "nations try various strategies to eradicate such behavior in schools." ...

Social/Emotional: Peer Relations

Aspects of Personality and Peer Relations of Extremely Talented Adolescents

This article by Susan Dauber and Camilla Benbow compares 340 extremely mathematically or verbally talented 13-year-olds to 111 modestly gifted students. They found no differences in group activity participation or personality traits. They rated their peer perceptions as well -- the modestly gifted exceeded the extremely gifted in being considered athletic, popular and in social standing. ...

Friendship patterns in highly intelligent children

This article provides a summation of previously performed research studies as well as one recently performed empirical study about how well highly intelligent children make friends. Highly intelligent children, as shown by previous research, show satisfactory social adjustment. The minority who are not socially well-adjusted is about twice that of moderately intelligent children. The empirical study found similar results. Also ideas are provided to help highly intelligent children adjust better socially. Authored by Paul Janos, Kristi Marwood a ...

Highly gifted children and peer relationships

This article by Deirdre Lovecky reviews the research on highly gifted children and peer relationships. The author highlights possible issues with peers for highly gifted children. She also discusses strategies for developing successful peer relationships. ...

Musings: Gifted children and the gift of friendship

In this article, Dr. Miraca Gross explains the different kinds of friendships and relationships between average ability children and gifted children. She covers what gifted children expect from friends compared to what children of average ability expect. Also discussed is how these different expectations sometimes cause disappointment for gifted children. ...

Play partner or sure shelter: What gifted children look for in friendship

This article by Miraca Gross explores the five stages children go through in developing their expectations of friendships. She identifies them as: play partner; people to chat to; help & encouragement; intimacy/empathy; and sure shelter. Gifted children tend to reach the final stage of friendship expectations years ahead of average ability children, thus causing social isolation and the need for a true friend. ...

Recommended Readings on Friendship

This article by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development suggests recommended readings on the topic of friendship that include articles and books. The introduction touches on the fact that most gifted people are well-adjusted in terms of friendship, despite the common misconception otherwise. The articles and books recommended here can help one to better understand the nature of friendship and its relation to giftedness. ...

Social Adjustment and Peer Pressures for Gifted Children

This article by Sylvia Rimm addresses the social issues that gifted young people face on a regular basis. It gives situational examples and offers suggestions to parents on how to deal with issues that may arise. Peer pressures are discussed as well as strategies for parents on helping their children to chose the "right" peer group. ...

Social and emotional issues faced by gifted girls in elementary and secondary school

This article by Sally Reis discusses some of the factors that are involved in the social and emotional development of gifted girls. Issues that are faced are explored and factors that help and hinder healthy development are explained. Most of the challenges also are applicable to boys, but are examined with considerations for gender. ...

Teasing and gifted children

This article by Patricia Schuler discusses the problem of teasing in relation to gifted students. It offers parents suggestions on how to talk to children about this issue and on how to help work through and solve this problem. The tips focus on giving children the skills to deal with teasing themselves. ...

Support Materials: Book Reviews

Good Friends Are Hard To Find: Help your child find, make, and keep friends and also deal with teasing, bullying, meanness & stormy relationships

BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book is a great reference guide for your child in helping them deal with the struggles of making and keeping friends. ...