{"product_id":"keeping-your-kids-out-front-without-kicking-them-from-behind-9780787952235","title":"Keeping Your Kids Out Front Without Kicking Them","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents a guide for moms and dads of talented and gifted children. In this practical book, authors - experts in the field of parenting - present their Seven-Step Program for Encouraging and Protecting High-Achieving Children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book provides the third voice that parents of gifted chidlrenreally need to help make the difficult everyday decisions. How muchstudy or practice is too much versus too little? How much pressureor competition is an incentive for a child's mastery, and how muchis too stressful for a young talented person?\" (Bonnie and FredWaitzkin, Bonnie Waitzkin, director of chess program for giftedelementary school children, Fred Waitzkin, author, Searching forBobby Fischer and The Last Marlin.)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An excellent book for all parents to read! It fills a voidespecially for parents with kids in sports.\" (Joan Ryan, author,Little Girls in Pretty Boxes)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A concise yet richly developed book on a critical topic for thiscentury, by a well-respected psychiatrist.\" (Ron Kamm, M.D., vicepresident, International Society for Sport Psychiatry and fellow ofthe American Psychiatric Association)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Tofler and DiGeronimo's pre-eminent book develops reasonedapproaches to the development of healthy, successful, and talentedchildren, while avoiding the potentially damaging, even deadlydemands placed upon their young shoulders. . . . [they] haveprovided marvelous examples, suggestions, guidelines, andconclusions. They will show you how to define the distinctionsbetween healthy nurturing and harmful exploitation as you bringyour talented, highly talented or even genius children in a familysetting.\" (Larry Stone, M.D., past president, American Academy ofChild and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e AN UP-CLOSE LOOK AT PARENTS AND CHILDREN.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Debating What is Best for Our Children.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From Benign to Abusive.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A SEVEN-STEP PROGRAM FOR ENCOURAGING AND PROTECTING HIGH-ACHIEVINGCHILDREN.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step 1: Define and Evaluate \"Talent\" Why Evaluate Talent?;\u003cbr\u003e Six Points of Talent Evaluation;\u003cbr\u003e Advice from the Experts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step 2: Selecting Classes, Schools, and Camps that Cater toHigh-Achieving Children Evaluate Four Motives for Special Training:1) Improvement of Skill, 2) Supportive Environment, 3) EliteExposure, 4) Resume Building; and Advice From the Experts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step 3: Beware Abusive Instructors Avoiding the Win-At-Any-CostInstructor;\u003cbr\u003e The Burden of Star Makers;\u003cbr\u003e Understanding The Verbal Batterer;\u003cbr\u003e The Danger of the Parent Substitute;\u003cbr\u003e Beware the Sexual Abuser;\u003cbr\u003e Advice from the Experts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step 4: Weigh the Cost of Sacrifice Childhood Sacrifices;\u003cbr\u003e Parental Sacrifices;\u003cbr\u003e Sibling Sacrifices;\u003cbr\u003e Advice from the Experts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step 5: Look Beyond the Talent Into the Future Look Beyond theTalent;\u003cbr\u003e Look Where You're Going;\u003cbr\u003e Beware the Downside of Competition;\u003cbr\u003e Watch Those Social Skills;\u003cbr\u003e Minimize Chronic Stress;\u003cbr\u003e Nurture Your Parent\/Child Relationship;\u003cbr\u003e Advice from the Experts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step 6: Beware the Red Flags of Achievement by Proxy DistortionBurnout;\u003cbr\u003e Over-training;\u003cbr\u003e Depression;\u003cbr\u003e Psychological Pain and Illness;\u003cbr\u003e Eating Disorders;\u003cbr\u003e Substance Abuse;\u003cbr\u003e Answering a Cry For Help.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step 7: Take a Good Look at your Parenting Style AutocraticController;\u003cbr\u003e Narcissistic and Needy;\u003cbr\u003e Financially Hungry;\u003cbr\u003e Overly Competitive;\u003cbr\u003e Frustrated Wanna-Be or Has-Been;\u003cbr\u003e Living in Denial;\u003cbr\u003e Untangling the Roots of ABPD;\u003cbr\u003e Encourage and Support.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Notes.","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405037117783,"sku":"9780787952235","price":21.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780787952235.jpg?v=1730488452","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/keeping-your-kids-out-front-without-kicking-them-from-behind-9780787952235","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}