This article provides parents numerous guidelines on their adoloescents' peer relationships, life skills, social behavior and more. ...
Written by Barbara Probst, this article explains the challenges involved with raising "difficult" children. She provides a number of options on how to nourish your child's strengths and discusses the importance of looking at the whole child. ...
Written by Barbara Probst, this article covers the second exceptionality typically not thought of when discussing twice-exceptionality - one that is emotional, social or behavioral related. ...
This article is a book chapter by Lynn Pollins. It discusses studies on acceleration as it relates to the student's social and emotional development. There has never been a study that showed a negative result of acceleration. By contrast, there may even be positive effects to the social and emotional development of accelerants. ...
Although kids of all ages can be bullied or be bullies themselves, it tends to escalate in the middle-school years. Children often pick on one another verbally or shove and push a weak classmate. Overweight kids are easy targets, as are children who dress, speak, or act differently than others. It's a shame that our culture allows and perhaps even encourages these types of behaviors, but it's still a reality in many of our school grounds, classrooms, and neighborhoods. In another excerpt from her book Laying Down the Law, Dr. Ruth Peters ...
Patricia Gatto-Walden discusses how you can strive to establish the foundations of health and wellbeing in your family. ...
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. ...
Gwen Hullman touches on key points of communication competence - including family communication style and personality factors. ...
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. ...
Nadia Webb sums up key points about teens and hygiene, hormones and happiness. ...
Juli Scala gives tips on setting and achieving goals. ...
Dr. Nadia Webb touches upon a few of the social/emotional issues that parents of gifted children deal with regularly. ...
“Gifted students are the most heterogeneous group to study because they can vary the most on the most variables”. Cross, 2005 ...
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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Tips for Parents by Jane Nelson from her seminar titled “Positive Discipline for Gifted Children” that ran February 2009.
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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. ...
In this article, Thomas Greenspon discusses the impact giftedness can have on children's social behavior. ...
This article is an op-ed piece by Dr. Nicholas Colangelo addressing the "Indigo children" movement. Colangelo defines the movement and urges colleagues not to get involved. He warns about the detrimental effect on children of giving them an aura of being "beyond the rules." ...
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 by Lesley Sword explores and explains emotional intensity in gifted individuals. A number of traits of emotionally intensity are described. Strategies for parents are suggested to help their emotionally intense gifted children to accept themselves as they are. ...
This article by Miraca Gross discusses the lack of differentiation between the levels or degrees of gifted individuals by professionals in gifted education. ...
This article discusses gifted high school students and their self-perceptions. Overall, the study finds that, contrary to most research in this area, these students felt very well adjusted. Teachers agreed with the students in all areas except that the students rated themselves as happier than their teachers rated them. Authored by Tiffany Field, Jeff Harding, Regina Yando, Ketty Gonzalez, David Lasko, Debra Bendell and Carol Marks. ...
This article by Leslie Sword examines the emotional intensity of gifted children in terms of the overexcitabilities that are a component of Dabrowski’s theory of emotional development. Descriptions of emotional intensity are given together with examples of behaviour associated with emotional intensity that are often mistakenly perceived as emotional immaturity. It concludes that emotional intensity in the gifted is essential to the learning process and that gifted children need understanding and support to accept their rich inner experiences an ...
"The asynchrony of gifted children, especially in the area of moral sensitivity, brings special issues to consider. These issues need to be resolved in order to develop good internal boundaries as well as appropriate interpersonal interactions." This article by Deirdre Lovecky explores the topic of gifted children who are very empathic and it gives examples of how this trait emerges in children. It also discusses ways to help gifted children handle this empathy so that it does not overwhelm them. ...
This article by Sharon Lind explains how the concept of overexcitability, from the work of Kazimierz Dabrowski, relates to some highly gifted individuals. The author identifies several types of overexcitability. Also offered are strategies for dealing with each type of overexcitability. ...
There are many similarities in the development of current students and those from previous generations. However, there are significant differences in the experiences of every generation of students. ...
This article by Miraca Gross discusses the feeling that many gifted children have that they must choose between social acceptance and intellectual ability. This article proposes that programs that group students based on ability rather than age will not force such a socio-psychological issue upon the gifted young person. She also cites research supporting this point of view. ...
This article by Wendy Roedell points out that although good social adjustment, emotional maturity, and healthy self-concepts are realized by many intellectually gifted children, this same group of children is uniquely vulnerable to a variety of adjustment difficulties. Problems of uneven development, perfectionism, adult expectations, intense sensitivity, self-definition, alienation, inappropriate environments and role conflict are explored. Roedell concludes that the degree of success at these adjustments depends to a great extent on environme ...
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." ...
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) - A Davidson Institute Family Consultant gives a quick overview of this book by Cathi Cohen. Quizzes at the beginning of each chapter help guide the reader to answers that apply to their particular situation. This book is a valuable tool for any parent wanting to avoid raising a child with a "social learning disability." ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This review explains why this book is a helpful tool for educators, counselors and anyone looking to recognize and respect the relationships between students' emotional, social and academic needs. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - When Gifted Kids Don't Have All The Answers by Jim Delisle and Judy Galbraith explains what giftedness means, how gifted kids are identified, and how we might improve the identification process. Then they take a close-up look at gifted kids from the inside out-their social and emotional needs. Topics include self-image and self-esteem, perfectionism, multipotential, depression, feelings of "differentness," and stress. ...