Parent's Guide to Raising a Gifted Child

Recognizing and Developing Your Child's Potential from Preschool to Adolescence

By James Alvino
(Ballantine Books, Paperback, 9780345410276, 408pp.)

Publication Date: September 29, 1996

Categories: Parenting - General

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LEARN TO MEET THE NEEDS OF YOUR GIFTED CHILD
 
Though academic abilities have always been important in determining whether your child is gifted, talent in the visual or performing arts, leadership qualities, and intellectual curiosity are just as vital. But unless we as parents help nurture those talents, our gifted children can become bored, socially aggressive, or, ironically, underachievers in the classroom.
 
Here is a practical, informative, and authoritative primer for raising and educating our gifted children from pre-school to adolescence. Beginning with sensible strategies to determine whether—and in which areas—your child is gifted, this book takes parents through selecting an appropriate day-care center, a school, and a home reference library. It helps us figure out where our role stops and the school’s role begins, as well as detailing ways to keep our children’s creativity alive and how to cope with sibling rivalry and our own doubts and fears. Also included are a recommended reading list, a special section on the roles of the computer and television in your gifted child’s life, and much more.

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