For Parents of Gifted Children
Editor's note, winter 2009: Developing and maintaining friendships is an important aspect of any child’s development. However, for many gifted kids this can be a struggle. Using the term “true peers,” the first of the friendship articles discusses the struggle...
Paulette dreads piano recitals. Even though she’s given many of them, anxiety makes her feel sick before performing. It abates once she begins to play, but stage fright takes the fun out of playing before an audience. What can...
Volume 6 / Issue 3 / Spring 2006 Social-Emotional Issues The Emotional Edge
Children are much more resilient than we tend to give them credit for. In the face of personal tragedy, simple supports, structure, and assurances go a long way toward helping children recover. Events that cause children distress include the death...
Volume 5 / Issue 3 / Spring 2005 Social-Emotional Issues The Emotional Edge
The friendships of gifted children often challenge parents, because they differ from those of average-ability children in several ways. First, because gifted children are similar in cognitive and social development to children who are two to four years older, they...
Feature Volume 4 / Issue 1 / Fall 2003 Social-Emotional Issues
Identity formation, a major event in adolescence, is the process by which individuals define themselves. It involves exploring the questions “Who am I becoming?” and “What will I do with my life?” Like gender, race, ethnicity, and class, giftedness is...
Volume 2 / Issue 2 / Winter 2002 Social-Emotional Issues The Emotional Edge
As parents, we naturally want to prevent our children from experiencing extreme adversity, but, try as we might, there is only so much we can do to keep them safe. The world sometimes is an unsafe place, and for many...
Volume 4 / Issue 4 / Summer 2004 Social-Emotional Issues The Emotional Edge
Perhaps the biggest challenge in helping gifted students with attention difficulties is getting an accurate diagnosis of them. How are true attention deficits differentiated from the emotional and behavioral shifts common among gifted students? The problem may be compounded...
Volume 1 / Issue 4 / Summer 2001 Social-Emotional Issues Special Populations The Emotional Edge
Although there is no evidence of higher rates of depression and suicide among intellectually or academically gifted students, depression is epidemic among children and adolescents in general. As many as 10 percent of children suffer from depression before age 12....
Volume 1 / Issue 2 / Winter 2001 Social-Emotional Issues The Emotional Edge
A parent asks, “Since my child entered middle school, she doesn’t seem challenged academically. What advice can you give me and my child’s teacher?” Two authorities in the gifted field provide a response. Dr. Maureen Niehart: A sportswriter once said...
Consultant's Corner Educational Strategies Volume 1 / Issue 1 / Fall 2000 Stocking, Vicki