Sylvia Rimm discusses the "C" characteristics that are crucial to success and offers some suggestions for parenting your daughters for resilience. ...
This article by Sylvia Rimm contains ten pointers on how to encourage girls to become successful women. It offers suggestions and explanations for each of the pointers. The brief article comes right to the point and the guidelines will be helpful to any person who spends time with young people. ...
Deborah Ruf provides a step-by-step guide for parents to assess their children’s level and profile of giftedness, how they learn and view the process of learning, and how their children’s gender impacts the effect of planning for their children’s best educational placement.
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This article by Barbara Kerr discusses what has shaped modern gender identity in the Western world. She also examines its implication on gifted young people. Ranging in scope from Freud to collegiate athletics, Kerr's article suggests that much ground remains to be covered in establishing gender equity. ...
This article by Joan Smutney addresses some of the issues gifted girls face once they are in school. Gifted girls may feel they have to pay a high price for their talent because they are treated differently by their peers than the girls of average ability. They may also find that gifted boys are encouraged much more than girls. At times, these girls do not even realize they are gifted, they just know that they are different and sometimes feel like they are strange or something is wrong with them. The article outlines traits of gifted girls and ...
This article by Sylvia Rimm is aimed at girls. In it she offers pointers on how to get over shyness and stage fright. Examples of very successful women who described themselves as ordinary girls are given throughout the article. ...
This article provides information on gifted boys and the image issues that they face. ...
Over the years, author Adam J. Cox Ph.D., developed group techniques that are effective with boys because they build on the three primary social learning platforms of boys – the desire for action, mastery and play. Cox covers topics such as The Benefits of a Boys-Only Social Skills Group, Why Pragmatic Communication Skills Are So Important, and how Actions Speak Louder ThanWords. ...
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This article by Dr. Sylvia Rimm offers ten tips for raising gifted daughters. These tips focus on promoting excellence and confidence and encourages parents to stay positive with their daughters. Every tip is targeted specifically to girls. ...
This article presents a new model of female talent development based on a wide variety of life experiences of gifted women. Many issues are addressed from personal, professional and cultural challenges to ways gifted women and girls can get help identifying and using their talents. Authored by Kathleen Noble, Rena Subotnik, and Karen Arnold. ...
This article focuses on four issues confronting bright young men: underachievement, self-inflicted pressure in athletics, cultural alienation, and father-son relationships. The author proposes the use of biography as a counseling strategy through which bright young men may gain helpful insights to deal with the problems they face. ...
This article by Jane Piirto is about the many studies that have been done in relation to gender and the arts, sciences, and mathematics. Each of these subtopics of creativity are explored along with studies that have been done on gender in each field. Issues that women often face, such as the feeling that one must choose between a successful career and a family, are discussed at length. ...
This article is a book section from Living With Grief. It offers a list of some common myths about children and adolescents and how they deal with loss and grief. It also offers practical suggestions for parents and family members to help with the process. ...
This article by Paula Olszewski-Kubilius and Jeff Yasumoto examined what influenced students when choosing courses at a summer academic program. The study found several factors influencing the choices students made, including previous academic experience and race. Parental attitudes had the greatest effect on students choice across all variables. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Dr. Sylvia Rimm's third book in the See Jane Win series is a compilation of interviews and easy to follow, real-world recommendations, See Jane Win is recommended as an excellent resource for women of all ages. ...