A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children
- ISBN-10
- 0910707790
- ISBN-13
- 9780910707794
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 390
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Great Potential Press, Inc.
- Author
- James T. Webb
Description
Raising a gifted child is both a joy and a challenge, yet parents of gifted children have few resources for reliable parenting information. The four authors, who have decades of professional experience with gifted children and their families, provide practical guidance in areas such as: Characteristics of gifted children, Peer relations, Sibling issues, Motivation and underachievement, Discipline Issues, Intensity, perfectionism, and stress, Idealism, unhappiness, and depression, Educational planning, Parenting concerns, Finding professional help. Book jacket.
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