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The Case Against Competition

When it comes to competition, we Americans typically recognize only two legitimate positions: enthusiastic support and qualified support. The first view holds that the more we immerse our children (and ourselves) in rivalry, the better. Competition builds character and produces excellence. The ...
Reference | Alfie Kohn

Raisin' Brain: Maintaining Homes for All Kinds of Minds

School is not the only arena in which children's minds need to be nurtured and expanded. Equally vital is the kind of education and brain building that a student undergoes at home. Parents can do much to establish a domestic milieu that helps every child to develop his or her very special and ...
Reference | All Kinds of Minds

Activities for Gifted Children: From Birth to Five

Baby's brain Scientists say a baby's brain is a fascinating bundle of neurons just waiting to be hard-wired into the intricate circuitry we call the mind. The wiring of the brain begins at birth and continues until age 10 or 12 when it is wired for life, according to these findings. Some ...
Reference | American Association for Gifted Children

Building Your Child's Character

We live in a time when teaching our children to be virtuous is especially challenging. Youngsters are surrounded by political sound-bites; outlandish promises from advertisers; and television programming and films filled with lying, gratuitous violence and sex as entertainment. As a parent, you ...
Reference | American School Counselor Association

Appropriate Use of the Internet

Trying to find helpful information regarding appropriate use of the Internet by children can be a challenge for parents and educators. One helpful site is NetSmartz, www.netsmartz.org, which was created by a partnership of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the ...
Reference | American School Counselor Association

Positive Parenting Tips for Summer

For 180 days a year, school counselors work with students on how to express their feelings in appropriate ways, how to deal with their anger and how to cope with stressful situations. But what happens when school is not in session, especially during the extended summer break? As a parent, ...
Reference | American School Counselor Association

Turning College and Career Planning Into Family Communication

Once upon a time we knew a boy who wanted to become a part-time professional baseball player, part-time professional football player, part-time private businessman and part-time Captain America. We also knew a girl who wanted, despite artistic and literary talents, to become the ...
Reference | American School Counselor Association

Letting Kids Be Kids

We all know them, don't we? "Those" parents - the ones no one wants to sit with in the bleachers because they're so irritating. Recognize any of these folks? A young basketball coach has to call his own father for advice after he struggles with a "bleacher dad" who persists in ...
Reference | American School Counselor Association

An Integral Approach to the Social and Emotional Development of the Profoundly Gifted

Like all children profoundly gifted children have essential needs for connecting to others, for being understood, for expressing and exploring feelings and ideas, for reciprocal exchange and for friendship. The exceptional nature of PG children and their rarity in the population, ...
Reference | Davidson Institute for Talent Development

Tips for Parents: Perfectionism and the Profoundly Gifted Child

Editors Note: The following is a synthesis of information provided to parents from an online seminar on the subject of perfectionism and the profoundly gifted child. There is a continuum of definitions and values for being perfectionistic. Some are encouraging and inspire. Some are situation ...
Reference | Davidson Institute for Talent Development