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Social/Emotional Development: Stress Management

• Developmental: Twice Exceptional

  Dysgraphia Q & A

  This article contains answers to commonly asked questions about dysgraphia.

• Parenting: Parenting Strategies

  Helping Gifted Students Cope with Anxiety, Fear, Frustration and Difficult Feelings: Davidson Gifted Weekly Roundup - June 4, 2020

  A weekly roundup of gifted education news and resources.

  Helping Kids Establish and Maintain After-School Routines

  This article breaks down an effective after-school student routine, and how to get there.

  Parenting in Uncertain Times

  This article provides advice on how to curate daily well-being in an uncertain world with positivity and peace.

  The Overbooked Child: Are We Pushing Our Kids Too Hard?

  More and more children, like adults, are involved in far too many activities. In this article on Psychology.com's website, David Elkins cautions against over-scheduling your child.

  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

  Put a Pause on Being Productive: Gifted Weekly Roundup – June 12, 2020

  A weekly roundup of gifted education news and resources.

  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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Understanding and Promoting Emotional Regulation

  This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Kara McGoey, who provides advice on how to encourage healthy social/emotional development through emotional regulation.

  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.

• Social/Emotional: General

  Dabrowski’s Theory and Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adults

  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.

  Fostering philanthropic values

  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.

  Helping Gifted Students With Stress Management

  This article offers an overview of what stress is; how a gifted student experiences stress (causes and results); and offers suggestions on managing stress. It also contains a checklist to assist a teacher or parent in identifying "burnout" in a gifted child. The suggestions for stress management include both those an outsider, such as a parent or teacher, might incorporate, as well as specific suggestions for the gifted child to employ.

  Overexcitability and the highly gifted child

  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.

  Resilience and Gifted Children

  In this article, Barbara Kerr, Ph.D., examines resilience and how it relates to gifted students.

  Understanding Very, Very Smart People

  In this article, Samuel Kohlenberg, LPC, discusses his observations and experiences with profoundly gifted students and young adults. Here are a few things he would like to tell them (as well as the people in their lives).

• Social/Emotional: Peer Relations

  Bullying and Gifted Learners

  This article describes the unique challenges gifted students face related to bullying.

  Social/Emotional Needs: The Rage of Gifted Students

  Written by Tracy Cross, this article examines the unique social and emotional perspectives of gifted students.

• Social/Emotional: Perfectionism

  Gifted overthinkers: What makes them tick?

  This article takes a look at the concept of overthinking and its prevalence among gifted students.

• Social/Emotional: Underachievement

  When your gifted child disappoints

  This article provides parents advice on how to prepare for the roller coaster ride of parenting.

• Support Materials: Book Reviews

  Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children

  BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children by Dr. Bonnie Zucker.

  Coping for Capable Kids: Strategies for Parents, Teachers, and Students

  BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book review covers the content in both the adult and student editions of Coping for Capable Kids, by authors LeoNora M. Cohen, Ph.D. and Erica Frydenberg, Ph.D. The authors define giftedness and discuss its aspects at length.

  Fighting Invisible Tigers: A Stress Management Guide for Teens

  BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Young Scholars) - 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.

• Talent Development: Strategies & Tools

  Building Connections: Developing 21st Century Self-Management Skills for Gifted Students

  This article highlights a number of self-management skills essential for success in the 21st century. These skills are richly connected together to form the tapestry that makes up the 21st century gifted learner.

• Talent Development: Summer Programs

  The Time of Our Lives: How Summer Camp Tames Transition Trouble

  This article describes how summer camps can be helpful for students as they transition to the the college years and the accompanying hardships of that process.