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For Parents: Tips for Parents from YS Seminars

• Parenting: Parenting Strategies

  Tips for Parents: Balancing Mind with Heart

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by John Kroeker. It incudes a reading list and information on rhythmic breath, exercise and more.
  

• Parenting: Tips for Parents

  Tips for Parents: 2e Evaluations

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Edward R. Amend. The article is in Q&A format and covers a variety of topics related to 2e evaluations.

  Tips for Parents: A Muse in the Practice Room

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Joel Kabavov. He discusses issues regarding the incorporation of music into higher education.

  Tips for Parents: Academic Acceleration

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by MaryAnn Swiatek. She explains that acceleration can be a very good option for many students and offers options to consider when making a decision on the subject.

  Tips for Parents: Academic Acceleration for Students in 8th Grade and Younger

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik. She answers a number of questions that often arise in regards to acceleration options for students in 8th grade and younger.

  Tips for Parents: Acceleration

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik. She highlights several concerns about acceleration, including: Signs that acceleration may be needed; the impact of acceleration on social development; helping your child make the transition to the new grade; and much more.

  Tips for Parents: Acceleration and the Profoundly Gifted

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik. She discusses how to work with the school, how to evaluate the child, the best times to accelerate and more. Shoplik also covers early entrance to college and the option of not accelerating a child.

  Tips for Parents: Acceleration for Middle and High School Students

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik, in which she conducted a seminar for parents of academically talented students who were interested in acceleration. Below are some of the points discussed during the seminar.

  Tips for Parents: ADD and the Gifted

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Paul Beljan. He offers tips on how to help a gifted child who has ADD. Most importantly, he advocates for a full assessment and a holistic approach to treatment.

  Tips for Parents: ADHD and Giftedness: What Do Parents Need to Know?

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Megan Foley Nicpon. She provides a detailed analysis of the issues that gifted students with ADHD encounter. Parents are provided a number of suggestions for treatment.

  Tips for Parents: Adolescence and the HG/PG Individual

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Robert Schultz, in which he offers insight and parenting strategies appropriate for profoundly and highly gifted teenagers.

  Tips for Parents: Advanced credit and placement opportunities for secondary students

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Joyce VanTassel-Baska. She provides insight on academic planning for students at the secondary level and beyond.

  Tips for Parents: Advanced Educational Advocacy

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Esther Sinclair, a UCLA educational psychologist who specializes in advocating for appropriate education for children with special needs (including gifted students). She shares 10 advanced tips on how to advocate for the educational needs of profoundly gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: Advocacy - Working with Your Child’s School

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik, Ph.D. She provides numerous strategies on how to advocate for your gifted student in his/her school setting.

  Tips for Parents: Advocacy and Gifted Learners

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by SaDohl Jones, who shares information related to advocacy.

  Tips for Parents: Advocating for the 2E Child and the Profoundly Gifted in a Traditional School Setting

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Megan Foley Nicpon in which she provides 11 ideas on advocating for your profoundly gifted student.

  Tips for Parents: An Integral Approach to the Social and Emotional Development of the Profoundly Gifted

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by P. Susan Jackson, the founder of the Daimon Institute for the Highly Gifted. She is a psychotherapist, educational consultant and researcher who specializes in the overall development of gifted students. The following is a synthesis of information provided to parents from an online seminar on social/emotional development of the profoundly gifted child.

  Tips for Parents: An Overview of Language and Non-language based Dysgraphia

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Drs. Paul Beljan and Alison Reuter, who specialize in pediatric neuropsychology, and provides tips for dealing with language and non-language based dysgraphia.

  Tips for Parents: Anger Management for Your Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kiesa Kay, who provides advice on approaching anger management in relation to gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: Anxiety, Sensitivities and Social Struggles among Profoundly Gifted Kids

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Megan Foley Nicpon in which she discusses how the concepts of anxieties, sensitivities, and social struggles can manifest within profoundly gifted kids and identifies ways to positively intervene.

  Tips For Parents: AP vs. IB - Which is best for my kid?

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jay Mathews, who compares Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) classes in relation to gifted students.
  

  Tips for Parents: Assessment, Testing and Interpretation of Results

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Mary Rizza, in which she provides information on the different types of assessment, addressing the different purposes of each and showing how each has a similar yet different set of instrumentation.

  Tips for Parents: Attaining Health and Well-being Through Balance

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Patricia Gatto-Walden, in which she discusses how you can strive to establish the foundations of health and well-being in your family.

  Tips for Parents: Balancing Mind with Heart: An Introduction to Heart Rhythm Meditation

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by John Kroeker, in which he discusses a number of topics related to meditation.

  Tips for Parents: Beyond Overexcitabilities: A Crash Course in Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Lisa Rivero. She highlights aspects of psychologist Kazimierz Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration, the role of overexcitabilities in the theory, Dabrowski’s suggestions for supporting young people with what he termed “developmental potential,” and a list of resources for further reading and study.

  Tips for Parents: Budgeting for your child’s future

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jamie Hullman, in which she describes the three basic steps toward budgeting for your child's future.

  Tips for Parents: Building the Confidence and Skills Needed to Battle Peer Pressure

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara McGoey, who provides strategies on coping with peer pressure.

  Tips for Parents: Bullying - How to Support Your Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara McGoey, who provides advice on the prevention of bullying, as well as tips on how to handle the subject.

  Tips for Parents: Career Choices and Paths

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Carol Bainbridge, in which she provides a number of strategies for gifted adolescents on choosing career paths.

  Tips for Parents: Cartesian Splits and Chinese Splits

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Stephen Balzac, in which he 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.

  Tips for Parents: Cartoon Thinking

  This Tips for Parents article, from a seminar hosted by Dan Holt, provides information on humor and the gifted child, focusing on how gifted students have complex ideas and cartoons can be a way of helping them communicate those ideas.
  

  Tips for Parents: Cause for Concern or Reason to Celebrate: The Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Maureen Neihart, in which she provides tips on how to help gifted students build strong social networks. In addition, Neihart explains that highly gifted children have problems relating to and interacting with their peers because of a lack of similar interests and intelligence.

  Tips for Parents: Celebrating the Introvert (list of resources)

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Laurie Westphal, who provides a number of resources related to introverts.

  Tips for Parents: Cleared For Launch - Transition Planning for Twice-Exceptional Kids

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Aimee Yermish about the transition to adulthood for twice-exceptional students.

  Tips for Parents: Collaborating with School Personnel - Strategies for Successful Partnering

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara McGoey, who highlights ten helpful tips for parents who are looking to collaborate with their child's school personnel. If you are a parent looking to build a successful relationship with your gifted student's school, this article should prove helpful.

  Tips for Parents: College Admissions for the Unconventional Student - Looking at both Brand-Name Colleges and Beyond

  This Tips for Parents article is from two seminars hosted by Dr. Jon Reider. He provides advice for parents of unconventional students looking at college entrance.

  Tips for Parents: College Essay Writing - Support Tips for Parents

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Deborah Claymon, who provides advice on the college application process.

  Tips for Parents: College Thinkin'

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Deborah Claymon about preparation for college. She walks the reader through the steps students should follow in order to ask the right questions, take the right tests, and apply to the right colleges!

  Tips For Parents: Connections Among The Gifted - Helping GT Children Make and Keep Friends

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Christine Fonseca, who provides advice on helping gifted students understand social dynamics.

  Tips for Parents: Cool, Calm and Collected: Managing Behavior in the Classroom

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara McGoey, who reveals effective strategies in helping gifted students manage their behavior, especially in the classroom.

  Tips For Parents: Coping With Fear

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Maureen Neihart, who discusses ways in which parents can help their gifted students cope with fear.

  Tips for Parents: Coping with Peer Pressure in a World of Growing Up Too Fast

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sylvia Rimm, who provides a number of strategies to help gifted students deal with peer pressure.

  Tips for Parents: Corey Cerovsek on the Life of the Gifted Young Musician

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Corey Cerovsek, in which he discusses various aspects of the lives of gifted young musicians. He draws on his own life experience and the experiences of parents who participated in his onine seminar.

  Tips for Parents: Creating Effective Transcripts

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Wes Beach, who discusses the college application process and how to create an effective transcript.

  Tips for Parents: Creating the Linguistically Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Maya Frost. She provides parents advice on exposing their gifted students to different languages and cultures.

  Tips for Parents: Creative Homeschooling Solutions

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Lisa Rivero, who explores some of the issues that parents face when homeschooling and provides a number of options for them.

  Tips for Parents: Cybersafety: Keeping Your Children Safe Online

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Tonya Witherspoon, who has compiled an extensive list of kid-safe and family-friendly web sources. Witherspoon provides suggestions on how you can help keep your child's online surfing experience a safe one.

  Tips for Parents: Depression and Emotional Intensities

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Tracy Cross, in which he describes a number of characteristics associated with gifted students who have emotional intensities.

  Tips for Parents: Developing a Feeling Vocabulary

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sharon Lind, who provides a list of tips and words to use in developing a vocabulary of feeling words. Advice is targeted at parents of emotionally intense children. The goal is to offer them tools for understanding and expressing their emotional state.

  Tips for Parents: Developing Math Talent in Very Young Kids

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Julia Brodsky. She discusses his experiences in teaching a math circle to young (4- 9 year old) students and helping to develop their interests in the subject.

  Tips for Parents: Developing Mathematical Talent

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Richard Rusczyk. He discusses his experiences in sharing mathematics with students and helping develop their interests in the subject.

  Tips for Parents: Development of "out of the box" thinking in young children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Julia Brodsky, founder of “Art of Inquiry” math circle and former ISS astronaut crews’ instructor and private school teacher. She shares her experiences and observations on teaching problem-solving skills and “aha” problems to young students.

  Tips for Parents: Doing Poorly on Purpose: Underachievement and the Quest for Dignity
  

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jim Delisle, who offers considerations to remember and suggestions for addressing underachievement.

  Tips for Parents: Early College Entrance for Profoundly Gifted Students

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Jon Reider, director of college counseling at San Francisco University High School and former admissions officer at Stanford University. He shares tip for parents of profoundly gifted students considering early college entrance.

  Tips for Parents: Educational Advocacy

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Esther Sinclair, a UCLA educational psychologist who specializes in advocating for an appropriate education for children with special needs, including gifted students. In this article, Sinclair shares 10 tips regarding how to advocate for the educational needs of profoundly gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: Emotional Intelligence - Raising a Child Who Can Think and Act in Intelligent Ways

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Paula Wilkes, who discusses a number of topics related to intelligence.

  Tips for Parents: Emotionally Intense Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sharon Lind, who provides specific strategies for helping gifted people to "recognize, cope with, cherish and take advantage of their emotional intensity."

  Tips for Parents: Encouraging Your Children to Think with Depth and Complexity

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Paula Wilkes, who provides insight on helping students to think complexly.

  Tips for Parents: Enrichment and Early Preparation for an Ivy League Future

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jessica Fields, currently in her junior year at Princeton University. She is pre-med majoring in anthropology and creative writing as well as captain of the varsity fencing team. She discusses a number of ways to prepare your child for an Ivy League future.

  Tips for Parents: Everything in Moderation

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Marybeth Hicks. She assesses the causes of extreme behavior and habits, and brainstorms about how to regroup and infuse our families and homes with a greater appreciation for the benefits of moderation in all things.

  Tips for Parents: Executive Functioning - what is it, why we need it, and how we as parents can support our children's development

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Catherine Gruener and provides tips for parents on identification as well as strategies for supporting executive functioning students.

  Tips for Parents: Executive Functioning at Home and School

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Aimee Yermish. Gifted students kids often develop asynchronously; some aspects of development seem to lag behind others. Yermish discusses the frustrations of these struggles.

  Tips for Parents: Exploring Talent Development with Gagne's DMGT

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Francoys Gagne, who explores the various components of his Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent.

  Tips for Parents: Family Meetings - Why they are important and How-To (so much more than checking-in and stating problems)

  The Tips for Parents article is based upon a seminar hosted by Catherine Gruener. She provided resources, education, and guidance in application of Family Meetings, using Adlerian approaches with a Positive Discipline focus (Lott & Nelsen, 2012; Nelsen, 2006). The following information is a summary of the key issues from the seminar.

  Tips for Parents: Finding a Mentor for your Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by the Davidson Institute. It provides tips for parents on finding a mentor for their gifted child, including things to keep in mind when your child is seeking a mentorship and six steps to establishing an effective mentorship.

  Tips for Parents: Finding a Summer Program

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar that provided key questions to ask about summer programs for profoundly gifted young people, and offers rationale for asking the questions and what answers to look for. The article also includes compiled suggestions for choosing a program along with programs recommended by parents of profoundly gifted young people.

  Tips for Parents: Finding the Extroverted Side of You – Introverted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Christine Fonseca, who provides information for parents of introverts to help even the most introverted among us find their voice and share their talents with the world.

  Tips for Parents: First Person Perspective on the Early College Experience

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Cory Cerovsek, who provides a description of his experience with school acceleration and early college. He entered college at the age of 12 and feels his experience was a very good one, recommending it as an option.

  Tips for Parents: Forging Partnerships with Teachers, and Why They Often Don’t Work!

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Nancy Robinson. She addresses ways parents can take the lead to improve their relationship with a child's teacher.

  Tips for Parents: Freeing Our Families from Perfectionism

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Thomas Greenspon, who provides a wealth of advice related to perfectionism.

  Tips for Parents: Friendship Issues of the Gifted and Talented Elementary School Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Fred Frankel, who provides a number of strategies to help gifted students avoid bullying and develop friendships.
  

  Tips for Parents: Friendships of Gifted Elementary School Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Fred Frankel, who explores issues that gifted and talented children have in regards to making and keeping friendships and in getting along with peers.

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

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Fred Frankel, who offers insight on how children develop friendships and the differences in how boys and girls intereact with their friends.

  Tips for Parents: Getting Started in Homeschooling

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Lisa Rivero, who provides a number of useful tips parents can use when getting their children started in homeschooling.

  Tips for Parents: Gift Ideas for Eager Young Minds

  This Tips for Parents article provides suggestions of books, magazines, toys and games appropriate for gifted young people.

  Tips for Parents: Gifted . . . and Teenagers, too

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jim Delisle. He addresses the issue that teens need their parents in their teen years just as much as they did in kindergarten, just in different ways. Several strategies are offered as to how to address common teenage issues.

  Tips for Parents: Gifted Adolescents and Depression

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Tracy Cross, who discusses concepts involving gifted adolescents and depression. He also provides a number of resources for further information.

  Tips for Parents: Gifted and Global: Multiplying Possibilities through Intercultural Fluency

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Maya Frost. She provides advice on boosting students' awareness of the world and other cultures.

  Tips for Parents: Gifted Children and Friendships

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Annette Sheely, who shares her observations and tips about helping gifted and profoundly gifted children make and keep friendships.

  Tips for Parents: Gifted Children’s Friendships

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Miraca Gross, who provides 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: Gifted Kids and Groupwork

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Stephen Balzac, who takes a look at the process of groupwork and how it applies to gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: Gifted With Challenges - Understanding and Supporting Your Twice-Exceptional Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar by Meredith Warshaw and Sarah Wayland, who take a unique look at parenting twice-exceptional students.

  Tips for Parents: Greater Productivity, Creativity & Wellness through Mindfulness

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Paula Wilkes and provides tips for parents on using mindfulness to have greater productivity, creativity and wellness.

  Tips for Parents: GROWING UP GIFTED - Issues, Concerns, and the Importance of Self-Esteem

  This Tips for Parents article is from two 2010 seminars hosted by Judy Galbraith titled “GROWING UP GIFTED - Issues, Concerns, and the Importance of Self-Esteem."

  Tips for Parents: Guiding your Student to Fit in While Continuing to Stand Out

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Susan Paynter, who describes how to tap into gifted kids’ interests and analytical skills to support their social minds.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Gifted Children Be Smart About Dealing With Authority

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD., who provides advice on helping gifted students deal with authority figures.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Gifted Children Handle Cooperation and Competition

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD. She highlights some of the key challenges that gifted children face related to cooperation and competition, and she offers practical ways that parents can help.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Gifted Teens and Post-High School Students Aim for the Right Career Domain

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, who gives parents tips on helping their gifted teens find the right career path.

  Tips for Parents: Helping GT Kids Understand Their Emotions through Effective Emotional Coaching

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Christine Fonseca, who provides advice on helping gifted students identify and deal with their emotions.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Parents Understand their Profoundly Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Barbara Clark, who briefly touches on the basic structure and function of the brain and then goes on to describe three levels of giftedness: moderate, high, and profound. Characteristics of the profoundly gifted are offered as well as a summary of clues from brain research for parents and educators.

  Tips for Parents: Helping your Child Develop Communication Competence

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Gwen Hullman, who touches on key points of communication competence - including family communication style and personality factors.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Your Child with Social or Performance Anxiety

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Nadia Webb. She offers tips on how parents can help their student cope with social phobia and anxiety.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Your Gifted Child Cope with Parental Divorce

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kiesa Kay, who provides advice on helping gifted students through parental divorce.

  Tips for Parents: Helping Your Gifted Child or Teen Cope With Death and Chronic Illness

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kiesa Kay, who provides coping skills for gifted teens and children dealing with death or illness.

  Tips for Parents: High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders Q & A

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Melanie Crawford. She answered questions related to High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), including the the signs and symptoms of ASD as well as other commonly associated behaviors. Dr. Crawford also answered questions regarding the assessment and treatment of gifted children with ASD including school-based accommodations and social skills training.

  Tips for Parents: Homeschooling Moms

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Nadia Webb, who provides homeschooling moms advice by addressing some of the challenges homeschooling parents go through with their children. The article also suggests ways for mothers to make time for themselves through private reflection and socializing.

  Tips for Parents: Homeschooling Twice-Exceptional Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Meredith Warshaw, who discusses how homeschooling is often a good option for twice exceptional children because it allows for different levels of individual subjects to be taught. It also allows one to focus on the child in the ways that work best for that particular student.

  Tips for Parents: How Gifted Children Impact the Family

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sylvia Rimm. She discusses that 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: How Level of Giftedness, Gender, and Personality Affect School Behavior and Learning

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Deborah Ruf, who 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.
  

  Tips For Parents: How Students See Their Giftedness and Why It Matters: A Different View of “Mindset.”

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Thomas Greenspon, who provides parents a look into how students view their own giftedness.

  Tips for Parents: How to Build a Geek Media Shelter

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Marybeth Hicks. The seminar consisted of a discussion centered on sheltering children from the influence of media and pop culture.

  Tips for Parents: How to Effectively Deal with Bullying at School: Skills Training for Students and Parents

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Tom Letson, M.A. L.P.C. He offers these Frequently Asked Questions to help parents deal with situations in which their child may be bullied.

  Tips for Parents: How To Ensure Our Children Excel In Science

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Teresa Bondora, who provides parents numerous tips on how to help their children master science skills beginning at an early age.

  Tips for Parents: How to Get a Mentor for You and Your Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Ellen A. Ensher, who provides parents ideas on getting a mentor for their gifted student.

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

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara McGoey, who discusses promoting pro-social behavior among profoundly gifted children. Five themes are described along with specific strategies for promoting pro-social behavior.

  Tips for Parents: How To Present Chemistry To Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Teresa Bondora, who provides parents advice on how to introduce chemistry to gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: How To Teach Your Child To Be Scientifically Literate

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Teresa Bondora, who provides parents advice on teaching their students to be scientifically literate.

  Tips for Parents: Human Beings and Human 'Doings' - Considering the Impact of Parenting on Talent Development

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Thomas Greenspon, Ph.D., who discusses how parents and other significant adults have powerful influences on both the recognition and development of specific talents, on how far talents are pursued, and on the very experience children have of being talented.

  Tips for Parents: Hygiene, Hormones and Happiness

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Nadia Webb, who sums up a number of key points about teens and hygiene, hormones and happiness.

  Tips for Parents: Improving Social Skills in Children with ADHD

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Melanie Crawford, who provides advice on improving the social skills of children with ADHD.
  

  Tips for Parents: Individual Assessment of Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Edward R. Amend. The article is in Q&A format and covers a variety of of topics related to gifted assessment.

  Tips for Parents: Inner Experience of Gifted Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Jerald Grobman, who provides a clear understanding of the developmental process of gifted children, adolescents and young adults.

  Tips for Parents: Intellectual Assessment of Exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by John Wasserman, who covers 14 great bullet point recommendations on the subject of assesment.

  Tips For Parents: Intensity, Anxiety & Depression - The Dark Side of Giftedness

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Tracy Cross, who provides advice for parents of students exhibiting traits of anxiety and depression.

  Tips for Parents: Introverts

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sharon Lind, who offers suggestions on living with introverts, providing for them in the classroom and at home, and changes that adults can make to help introverts. It includes more than 20 straightforward tips.

  Tips for Parents: IQ Testing and How To Use It

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Nadia Webb, who provides a quick overview of different assessment tests and how to best utilize them to meet your childs needs and abilities.

  Tips for Parents: Is Boarding School a Good Consideration for my Gifted or 2E Student?

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Heidi Molbak. She addresses the many considerations a family will have when evaluating whether boarding school might be a good option for a gifted or 2e student.

  Tips for Parents: Keep the Joy In and the Pressure Out

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Rosanne Daryl Thomas during which she addressed the need for balance in the lives of Young Scholars and their families. In addition, she outlined strategies for keeping the joy in life and learning while managing pressures and keeping expectations at a reasonable level.

  Tips for Parents: Keeping the Light in Their Eyes

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Robin Schader. As subjective as it may seem, bright eyes are perhaps the most important indicator of learning – one that we may be tempted initially to discount or ignore when looking at the broad topic of talent development.

  Tips for Parents: Leadership Skills for Gifted Kids

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Stephen R. Balzac of 7 Steps Ahead. He highlights a number of helpful tips on leadership and decision-making.

  Tips for Parents: Learning and the Brain

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Colleen Willard-Holt, who discusses the basics of the brain, including memory, the effects of stress, sleep-cycles and the nature vs. nurture argument.

  Tips for Parents: Learning the Inner Game of High Achievement

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Maureen Neihart, who provides advice on a number of mental skills students can learn to achieve.

  Tips for Parents: Living With Intensity – Overexcitabilities in Profoundly Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Susan Daniels. She began the seminar by addressing the complex nature of the gifted child and provided the Columbus Group (1991) definition as a starting place for integrating the social and emotional qualities of profoundly gifted children with our knowledge of their intellectual capacities

  Tips for Parents: Making Decisions about Early Entrance to College

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Michelle Muratori, Ph.D. She touches upon factors that contribute and detract to early entrants’ success as well as options and alternatives to early college.

  Tips for Parents: Making Early College A Happy Experience for Everyone

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Rosanne Daryl Thomas. She addresses the challenge of Making Early College A Happy Experience for Everyone – the child, the family, and the academic institution. She covers strategies for introducing the ‘right amount’ of early college to your Young Scholar as well as important questions such as: What is the parent's responsibility? What can, and cannot be asked of the child? How do we balance maturity and the desire for independence?
  

  Tips for Parents: Making New Connections: Digging Deeper into the practice of Positive Discipline Parenting

  This Tips for Parents article is based upon a seminar hosted by Catherine Gruener. She provided resources, tips and guidance in application of Positive Discipline parenting, using Adlerian approaches with a Positive Discipline focus (Lott & Nelsen, 2012; Nelsen, 2006).

  Tips for Parents: Making Sense of Assessment Results

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Nadia Webb. She provides a quick Q&A about how to make sense of your child's assessment results.

  Tips for Parents: Managing Frustration and Difficult Feelings in Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Dale Stuart to help parents understand their gifted child’s intense and difficult feelings, and offer guidance to help their children manage these difficult feelings.

  Tips for Parents: Mathematical Circles as a way to sustain your child’s curiosity and develop scientific thinking

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Anna Burago, founder of “Prime Factor” math circle and the author of “Math Circle Dairies Year 1: Complete Curriculum for Grades 5 to 7."

  Tips for Parents: Meditation as a Decision Making Tool

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Robin Goldberg, who discusses the effects of meditation on decision making.

  Tips for Parents: Meeting the Diverse Needs of Twice-Exceptional Students

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Megan Foley Nicpon, who discusses a number of ways to conduct successful educational interventions and the definition of "Twice-Exceptional."

  Tips for Parents: Meeting the Needs of Twice-Exceptional Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar by Meredith Warshaw who offers advice on a number of issues (i.e. assessment, schooling, siblings).

  Tips for Parents: Mendel, Escher Bach - Giftedness and Family Dynamics

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Aimee Yermish, who facilitated an online seminar on how giftedness and family dynamics can intertwine. This is an area where there are no easy answers; she advocates a thoughtful approach to building awareness of how one’s own family and its stories have developed over multiple generations.

  Tips for Parents: Multicultural Education and the Gifted

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by SaDohl Jones and provides information about multicultural education and gifted students by defining the what, why, how and who as well as outlining different approaches.

  Tips for Parents: Multiple Potentiality and Making Difficult Choices

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Dale Stuart, who helps parents understand multi-potentiality in their gifted children and the process of making difficult choices when their child is interested in, or shows potential in, many different areas.

  Tips for Parents: Natural Bridges on the Musical Landscape

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Joel Kabakov. He emphasizes the advantage of the ensemble experience in music, especially for those lone pianists who have little occasion to interact with other musical minds.

  Tips for Parents: Navigating a Gap Year

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Holly Bull, who provides advice on the "gap year" process.

  Tips for Parents: Neuropsychological Testing Q&A

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Melanie Crawford, who provides a Q&A about many different topics of neuropsychological testing.

  Tips for Parents: Nourishing the Mind, Heart, and Body of the Spiritually Sensitive Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Paula Wilkes, who discusses a number of topics related to sensitivity.

  Tips for Parents: Nurturing Creativity at Home

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Lisa Rivero. Ms. Rivero summarizes the key points in which parents can encourage and facilitate creativity in their children.

  Tips for Parents: Nurturing Math Talent While Homeschooling Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Julia Brodsky. She discusses homeschooling from a mathematics perspective.

  Tips for Parents: Nurturing Verbal Ability in Gifted Learners

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Joyce VanTassel-Baska. She provides information on how verbally talented learners can benefit from opportunities in all aspects of the verbal arts.

  Tips for Parents: Nurturing Yourself - Developing a Personal Survival Kit

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sharon Lind, who 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.

  Tips for Parents: Outside of School Educational Opportunities

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik, who provides advice on a number of strategies parents can take in regards to educational opportunites outside of school.

  Tips for Parents: Parenting for High Achievement and Avoiding Underachievement

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Sylvia Rimm, who lists seven specific tips for parents, and offers an explanation of each. Rimm touches on topics such as Foresight, Praise, Power, United Parenting, and Twice Exceptional Children.

  Tips for Parents: Parenting in the Digital Age

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kimberley Young, Director of the Center for Internet Addiction. She provides advice for parents in regards to protecting their students from dangers in the Digital Age.

  Tips for Parents: Parenting Mathematically Talented Students in 7th Grade and Younger

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Ann Lupkowski Shoplik, Ph.D, the director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students. A number of topics were discussed in this seminar, including program options and opportunities for math-talented students.

  Tips for Parents: Parenting Math-Talented Students

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik, who discusses the many aspects of parenting a math-talented child, including: finding mentors, above-level testing, online math programs and the benefits & drawbacks of math acceleration.

  Tips for Parents: Parenting the Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Edward Amend, who provides a number of ideas on how to foster relationships, improve discipline and increase motivation for your gifted child.

  Tips for Parents: Parenting your Gifted Child with ADHD

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Megan Foley Nicpon, Ph.D. She discusses parenting the gifted child with ADHD, touching on key issues such as: Psychological testing, medication, and behavioral and educational interventions to consider.

  Tips for Parents: Peer Relations

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Deirdre Lovecky, who provides an excellent starting point for parents or professionals gathering data about peer relations.

  Tips for Parents: Perfectionism

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Thomas Greenspon, who describes a number of characteristics of perfectionism.

  Tips for Parents: Perfectionism and the Profoundly Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Elizabeth Meckstroth, who offers insight into perfectionism by outlining several valuable parenting strategies for dealing with profoundly gifted children who demonstrate perfectionist tendencies.

  Tips for Parents: Perfectionism Resources

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. It provides a number of excellent strategies regarding a parent's approach to their child's perfectionism. The 11 tips contained here are based on information gathered during a facilitated discussion with parents of profoundly gifted young people. Also included is a collection of resources on perfectionism.

  Tips for Parents: Positive Boundaries - Where to Draw the Lines

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kiesa Kay, who provides guidelines on positive boundaries.

  Tips for Parents: Positive Discipline for Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jane Nelson, who provides advice related to the positive discipline of gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: Preparing Schools for your Highly Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Karen Rogers, who discusses ways to determine the best matches between a child’s documented educational needs and the provisions a school might be able to offer.

  Tips for Parents: Preparing your Gifted Child to Leave Your Nest and Build Their Own

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Steve and Tonya Witherspoon concerning children who are gifted, talented, and ready to succeed. The seminar was about sharing information, cultivating introspection, and developing plans for academics and the rest of children’s lives.

  Tips for parents: Profoundly Gifted Guilt

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jim Delisle, who offers parenting advice on overcoming guilt due to judgement errors, based on three decades of working with gifted children and their parents.

  Tips for Parents: Promoting Achievement through a Growth Mindset

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Del Siegle, who describes motivation and how it relates to achievement.

  Tips for Parents: Q&A on the Practice and Tools of Positive Discipline with Profoundly Gifted Children and Families

  The Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Catherine Gruener. She provided an open forum question and answer session on using Positive Discipline approaches with profoundly gifted children.

  Tips for Parents: Questions and Answers about Food Selectivity

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Monica Andis, the Program Manager of the Nutrition and Dietary Services at the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities. Questions are addressed for parents seeking information about their highly gifted children's eating issues and food sensitivities.

  Tips for Parents: Radical Acceleration

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Professor Miraca Gross, who delivers some tips on radical acceleration.

  Tips for Parents: Raising a chess player - from the first steps, to a top young player

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Ronen Har-Zvi, who provides advice on guiding a child who is interested in chess.

  Tips for Parents: Raising Children Who Are as Good as They Are Smart

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Marybeth Hicks. She provides insight on how to raise a principled child and tips for moral development.

  Tips for Parents: Raising Confident, Independent and Happy Girls

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Kara McGoey, who provides information about raising resilient girls.

  Tips for Parents: Raising Gifted Children Who Think for Themselves

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Paula Wilkes, who outlines several characteristics of independent, self-directed learners.

  Tips for Parents: Raising Gifted Girls - Special Considerations

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Vula Baliotis. She provides specific advice and guidelines on raising gifted girls.

  Tips for Parents: Raising Girls for Resilience and Optimism

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sylvia Rimm, who discusses a number of characteristics that are crucial for success and some suggestions for parenting daughters for resilience.

  Tips for Parents: Raising Resilient Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik, who discusses ways for parents to teach their children how to be resilient including the 7 C's of resilience.

  Tips for Parents: Real Life Habits for Success: The Way to Set & Achieve Your Goals

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Juli Scala, who provides advice on setting and achieving goals.

  Tips for Parents: Real World Parenting - How to Practice Effective Discipline, Nurture Creativity and Resilience, and Still Like Each Other!

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Cheryl Erwin. She provides a number of tips and tools on disciplining students to positive results.

  Tips for Parents: Recipes and Habits for Fast-Moving Families on the Go

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kiesa Kay, who provides 10 simple tips for families on the go.

  Tips for Parents: Risk-taking and Risk-making

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jim Delisle, who provides advice for overcoming perfectionist tendencies that may hamper exploration. Delisle discusses strategies parents can use to get their children to explore new options, even when it means they may not be the very best in this area.

  Tips for Parents: SAT Writing Prep

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Carol Martin, who outlines the various steps to successfully complete the writing section of the SAT. Tips include how to properly prepare for alleviating the anxiety of test-taking for some students.

  Tips for Parents: Secrets to Becoming a Scholarship Junkie: Learn About College Funding Resources... And How To Win Them

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sam Lim, who provides advice on obtaining scholarships and college funding.

  Tips for Parents: Self-Care and Other Tools to Enhance Family Functioning

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Michelle Muratori, who takes a look at the unique challenges parents face when balancing the needs of raising a gifted student with other family needs.

  Tips for Parents: Self-concept and Self-esteem Regarding Gifted Learners

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Barbara Clark, who offers strategies to use with gifted children to help them accept themselves as they are, to provide a place where they feel they can be themselves, and to try to help their educators to understand them as well.

  Tips for Parents: Self-Esteem of the Gifted

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Michelle Muratori about self-esteem and gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: Sensory Issues in Gifted Kids: A Developmental Overview and Recommendations for Parenting

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Beth Houskamp, Ph.D., who defines sensory processing issues and discusses them in regards to affect regulation.

  Tips for Parents: Sleep and Learning

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Melissa Burnham, who discusses the importance of sleep and its impact on student learning, memory, and performance.

  Tips for Parents: Smart boys

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sanford Cohn. He conducted this seminar for parents of highly intelligent boys. This article offers families four recommendations to consider in relation to radical acceleration.

  Tips for Parents: Social and Emotional Development in Gifted Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Nadia Webb. She discussed the social/emotional issues that parents of gifted children deal with regularly.

  Tips for Parents: Social Experiences of Gifted Adolescents

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Mary Ann Swiatek. She addresses issues raised by parents on several topics, including acceleration, personality characteristics and developmental tasks.

  Tips for Parents: Socialization and the Highly Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jim Delisle, who covers several strategies for dealing with socialization issues of highly gifted young children. Delisle draws upon his own experience as well as those of parents.

  Tips for Parents: Some Thoughts about College Admission

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Wes Beach, who provides advice on how students can prepare for the college admission process. Some ideas include: Focusing on personal qualities, nurturing personal traits and looking at "the fit, not the school."

  Tips for Parents: Straight Talk About Assessment

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Aimee Yermish. She provides advice on the the complicated question related to assessment that arise.

  Tips for Parents: Summer Enrichment Opportunities - Meaningful Experiences Beyond the School Year

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Michael Uretsky, who provides information and resources about beneficial summer enrichment opportunities for students.

  Tips for Parents: Surviving Your Gifted Teen

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Nadia Webb, who discusses how a gifted child as a "tweener" becomes more manageable with age.

  Tips for Parents: Tailoring Positive Discipline for the 2E Child

  The Tips for Parents article is based upon a seminar hosted by Catherine Gruener. She provided a number of resources, tips, and guidance in understanding and tailoring some of the key foundations of Positive Discipline (Lott & Nelsen, 2012) with parents of twice-exceptional children.

  Tips for Parents: Taking Care of You!

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara McGoey, who provides advice on helping parents take care of themselves.

  Tips for Parents: Taking Control of Your Child's Education

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Wes Beach. He paints the portraits of a number of gifted students who were suffering in their school experiences, as well as the steps their parents took to overcome these issues.

  Tips for Parents: Taking Control of Your Child's Education (2014)

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Wes Beach. This is an excerpt from his book, Forging Paths: Beyond Traditional Schooling.

  Tips for Parents: Talking about Terrorism

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kiesa Kay. She provides advice on how to discuss terrorism with gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: Tapping Web-based Social Media to Learn, Collaborate and Advocate

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Deborah Mersino about social media being used for advocacy efforts.

  Tips for Parents: Teachable Moments

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Marybeth Hicks, who provides examples of the phrase “teachable moments,” which describes unforeseen and unexpected opportunities to veer away from a lesson plan in order to capitalize on something that sparks students’ interest.

  Tips for Parents: Teaching Cheetahs to Hunt: Practical strategies for teaching executive functioning and academic skills for gifted and twice-exceptional kids

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Aimee Yermish, an educational therapist specializing in work with children who are gifted, learning-disabled, or twice-exceptional. She discusses the transition from “child prodigy” to “eminent adult” and why it is not always an easy transition for gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: Teaching the Use of Humor to Cope with Stress

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dan Holt, who discusses ways to assist 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.

  Tips for Parents: Technology and the Young Profoundly Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Tonya L. Witherspoon. She references in excess of 60 online links to fun technology projects and programs that help mentally stimulate gifted children. Witherspoon recommends everything from clay animation projects to roaming robots and electronic portfolios.

  Tips for Parents: Ten Tips for Creating a Joyful Family Vacation

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kiesa Kay and provides information about creating a joyful family vacation using 10 simple tips.

  Tips for Parents: Ten Tips for Parenting Gifted Girls

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Sylvia Rimm. She offers ten tips for raising gifted daughters that focus on promoting excellence and confidence, and encourages parents to stay positive with their daughters.

  Tips for Parents: That Should Only Take Ten Minutes

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Stephen R. Balzac of 7 Steps Ahead. He highlights a number of helpful tips on scheduling and time management.

  Tips for Parents: The Art of Academic Writing

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Michael Clay Thompson, during which significant elements in the instruction of the art of academic writing were examined.

  Tips for Parents: The Art of Preventing and Managing Disruptive Behavior

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara E. McGoey. She provides eight tips on dealing with disruptive behavior among gifted students.

  Tips for Parents: The Bilingual Preschooler: A Proven Path to Greater Creativity, Problem Solving, Attention and Compassion

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Maya Frost. She provides parents advice on exposing gifted preschoolers to different languages.

  Tips for Parents: The Gifted Brain & Learning: At Home and at School

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Barbara Clark, Ed.D., who provides ideas based on findings from neuroscience studies that can help parents understand and nurture children whose behaviors and needs are significantly beyond those usually found with children in their age range.

  Tips for Parents: The Gifted Child in the Family Context

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Michelle Muratori. She provides advice on how to best interact with gifted students from the family perspective.

  Tips for Parents: The Real World of Gifted Teens

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen and covers many issues that gifted teens face in school, in their social lives and at home. Strategies for helping teens through these difficult times are suggested.

  Tips for Parents: The Reluctant Writer

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Brenda Rinard, who discusses students who may write fiction, but have a hard time writing non-fiction and how these children soon become labeled as "reluctant writers."

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

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Fred Frankel, director of the UCLA Children's Friendship program, who discusses the important role of friendships for gifted and talented children.

  Tips for Parents: The Roots of, and Recovery From Perfectionism

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Thomas Greenspon, who outlines the dangers of perfectionism for families. Many gifted children, and their parents strive for excellence, in their academic efforts, as well as in the home. Greenspon offers tips on how to take perceived failure in stride, in order to continue to excel.

  Tips for Parents: The Social/Emotional Needs of the Highly/Profoundly Gifted Individual

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Robert A. Schultz. He covers a few of the topics discussed related to the Social/Emotional Needs of the Highly/Profoundly Gifted Individual, which can be one of the murkiest, yet most important areas associated with giftedness.

  Tips for Parents: The Underachievement Dilemma

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jim Delisle, who offers considerations to remember and suggestions for addressing underachievement.

  Tips for Parents: The Zen Valedictorian: A Parent's Guide to Helping Your Child Stand Out Without Burning Out

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Cal Newport. He discusses philosophical issues and issues related to reducing student stress.

  Tips for Parents: Tips for Discovering Interests

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Robin Schader of the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development. She explains the factors that lead to achievement. A number of interesting ideas are presented on everything from the joy of learning to the value of hard work.

  Tips for Parents: Twice Exceptional

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Esther Sinclair, who offers seven brief tips on twice exceptionalities.

  Tips for Parents: Twice exceptional students - Who are they and what do they need?

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Dr. Edward R. Amend. He describes the complex needs of 2e students.

  Tips for Parents: Understanding ADHD and Learning Disabilities

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Melanie Crawford, Ph.D., who addresses the assesment, understanding and treatment of ADHD and learning disabilities.

  Tips for Parents: Understanding Parental Guilt: A Gift for Mother’s Day

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Sylvia Rimm about parental guilt.

  Tips for Parents: What to do About Bullying

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Tom Letson, MA LPC NCC, a full-time New Jersey 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.

  Tips for Parents: What we Know from Longitudinal Studies of E/PG Children

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Miraca Gross, who provides new data on very early developmental advancement and the influence of sound educational planning and decision-making by families.

  Tips for Parents: What You Can do to Reverse Underachievement in The Classroom

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Del Siegle and D. Betsy McCoach. It includes a summary of tips and strategies on helping underachieving students to become achievement-oriented individuals. The authors include a discussion of the psychology and rationale for each tip.

  Tips for Parents: Where's the Spark? Managing Boredom In/Out of School

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Robert A. Schultz, P.h.D. who maintains that parents and teachers should zero in on the contruct of boredom and continue to question the meaning behind it until a statement is made that is addressable.

  Tips for Parents: Why SMART Goals Don't Work...and what to do about it

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Stephen Balzac, in which he provides advice on goal setting and setting obtainable objectives.

  Tips for Parents: Worry and the Gifted: How Much is Too Much?

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Edward Amend in which worry and stress as related to gifted children were discussed. The author explains that some worry is good and is a motivator, but that it is important to distinguish between a normal amount of worry and an amount that will cause problems for the child.

  Tips for Parents: Worry, Stress, and Depression

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Edward Amend, who 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.

  Tips for Parents: Writing and the Gifted Child

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Carol Martin, teacher for gifted and talented students, who offers parents tips on how they can help their gifted child develop the writing skills that will be necessary as they continue their education. Carol highlights the concern many parents have when their precocious student is reluctant to write.

  Tips for Parents: Young Scientists in the Making

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Jessica Fields, who seeks to help parents foster their child's passion for science. An interest in the scientific world may develop at a young age and it is important to keep such interest alive.