Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child (Barron's Parenting Keys)

by Sylvia B. Rimm

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Barron's informative, easy-to-read series of Parenting Keys books contain advice and information on a wide range of child-related subjects, written by experts in psychology, physical health, education, and social and personal development. Parenting Keys are designed to help parents raise healthy, happy, productive, and well-adjusted children in the demanding contemporary environment. Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child, 2nd Ed.; Parents get guidelines on how to determine if their children are show more unusually gifted, and how to prepare them for school. Here are recommendations to ensure that gifted children are sufficiently challenged in the classroom. The author also gives advice on dealing with emotional stresses that intellectually gifted children often feel. She emphasises the importance of maintaining a child's emotional adjustment in school, and among siblings, friends, and all family members. This new edition includes a chapter on gifted children and technology, and expands on the topic of gender issues that can affect gifted children's achievement. show less

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Here’s help for parents who must cope with the details of raising children in the often demanding Bringing up children today is different—and in many ways, more difficult—than it was in past generations. Barron’s Parenting Keys speak to today’s parents, with answers to today’s problems.
Parents get guidelines on how to determine if their children are unusually gifted, and how to prepare them for school. The author’s recommendations ensure that gifted children are sufficiently challenged in the classroom, while reducing emotional stresses to which intellectually gifted children are often prone. Emphasis here is on reduce such stress and maintaining the child’s emotional adjustment. This new edition includes Information on show more gender issues that can affect gifted children’s achievement. show less

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Sylvia Rimm, Ph.D., is a psychologist and best-selling author who has appeared regularly on NBC's Today show. She is director of the Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a clinical professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

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649.155Applied science & technologyHome economics & family managementChild rearing; home care of people with illnesses and disabilities by family and friendsParenting
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HQ773.5 .R55Social sciencesThe family. Marriage, Women and SexualityThe Family. Marriage. WomenThe family. Marriage. Home
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