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Stress Management for Gifted Children
Dr. Barbara Clark speaks to the issue of stress management with gifted children. In this article she provides a framework for understanding stress and offers several practical suggestions for controlling or alleviating stress in gifted youngsters. Jump to Full NewsWeb Story

Successful Parent-Teacher Conferences
Dr. James Delisle explains the components of successful communication between parents and teachers of gifted children and how to achieve successful parent-teacher conferences. This article provides a unique perspective from both the parent's and teachers' points of view. Jump to Full NewsWeb Story

He Wonders Where It Goes!
Here's a unique way to teach your child money management skills with a creative way to give your child an allowance. Jump to Full NewsWeb Story

Parents Are Partners in Gifted Education
There are many ways that parents can work together with their child's teacher as partners in gifted education. These include the roles of facilitator, mentor, booster, tutor, time management expert, and enrichment engineer. Jump to Full NewsWeb Story

Bedtime Theater:
Comics to Classics

A parent shares her family's bedtime theater activity, which involves all family members playing characters in comic books as well as the classics. Jump to Full NewsWeb Story

23 Signals of Creativity:
A Checklist for Parents
Creativity is an essential element of giftedness. You can recognize creativity in your child if you know what to look for. This checklist gives examples of children's behavior and verbal expressions that are indicative of creativity and creative thinking. Jump to Full NewsWeb Story

New Role for Parents:
"Consult" on Homework
Parents have a role in helping their child with homework, but it's not doing the homework for the child. Be a consultant on your child's homework. This article sets the framework, tone, and behaviors for appropriately helping your youngster with his or her homework. Jump to Full NewsWeb Story

How Motivation Affects Learning
What motivates your child to achieve may dictate whether he or she accepts challenges and persists in the face of difficulty, or avoids them and crumbles at the first sign of trouble. Learn how to recognize adaptive and maladaptive motivational patterns and how to cultivate learning goals in your child. Jump to Full NewsWeb Story

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Thinking about Eminence
What is the difference between eminence, reknown, and fame? Which does our society value most? What implications does this have for gifted programs? These questions are addressed in this insightful editorial.
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Alice, Barbara, Celia: How Are They Gifted?

Alice --

Alice is someone who excels in intelligence as it is traditionally conceived. She is a person with a sky-high IQ, outstanding grades, and exceptional analytical ability. She is superior in planning, monitoring, evaluating and implementing one's problem-solving strategies as well as acquiring knowledge. Alice is a test taker and problem solver par excellence. She is not nearly as good at creating and implementing original ideas.

Barbara --

Barbara, on the other hand, is someone who excels in the synthetic rather than analytic aspects of intelligence. That is, she excels in coping with relative novelty -- in seeing old problems in new ways and new problems in old ways. She earns good grades, but scores abysmally low on aptitude tests, causing others to misjudge her as an "overachiever." Barbara is someone who has creative insights that most people do not have. She can distinguish the forest from the trees in her thinking, a
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What's Bad about Being Too Good?

Gifted children who are perfectionists are generally maladapted as far as what motivates their behavior. They tend to be guided by performance goals-that is, they're most concerned with gaining favorable judgments of their competence or avoiding negative ones. Somewhere along the line these kids have come to feel that their worthiness and acceptance are tied to perfect performance.

The source of perfectionism in gifted children is usually the inappropriate expectations of other - high achieving, sometimes pushy parents; teachers who demand too much. Some children appear to be inherently self-critical. Whatever the source, perfectionists can end up avoiding challenge and giving up easily; they are defensive about what they don't know and attribute failure to low ability. They often become underachievers.

Ten Tips for Curing Perfectionism

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