THE SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL LIVES OF GIFTED KIDS
Understanding & Guiding Their Development

By Tracy L. Cross, Ph.D.

The Social & Emotional Lives of Gifted Kids tackles important and timely issues dealing with the social and emotional needs of today’s gifted children. This book contains practical suggestions and ideas for guiding and supporting the development of gifted children. This concise, sensitive look and gifted children and their social and emotional world offers unique insights for both teachers and parents who support these special children.

Energizers: Calisthenics for the Mind

By Carl Olsen

In order to have effective learning, we must activate the senses.  Jump start the learning process for all ages with 71 energizers, games, and initiatives.  Energizers are designed to activate the emotional nature of the group.  Games are organized play that includes competition on an individual or team basis.  Initiatives go one step further.  They are exploratory in nature, creating more in-depth analysis of thoughts, feelings, impressions, and reactions.

When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers:  How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs

By Jim Delisle, Ph.D., and Judy Galbraith, M.A.

Real-life strategies and solutions for meeting gifted kids' social and emotional needs and creating the gifted-friendly classroom.  Topics include identification, super-sensitivity, self-esteem, perfectionism, underachievement, and trouble signs to watch for.  This title replaces the classic Managing the Social and Emotional Needs of the Gifted.

The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide: A Teen Handbook

By Judy Galbraith, M.A.

This revised classic features new facts and findings about giftedness, intelligence, testing, and IQ; school survival, school success, and learning; goal-setting, planning for the future, and college preparation; expectations, time management, and perfectionism; friend, family, and relationships; stress, depression, and other mental health issues; and much more. A must for gifted kids, their parents, teachers, counselors, and anyone who cares about smart, creative, curious kids

The Gifted Kids Survival Guide
For Ages 10 & Under (3rd Edition)

By Judy Galbraith, M.A.

(AL 117)128 pages$12.99

Help gifted children in the elementary grades realize they’re not alone, they’re not “weird,” and being smart is a bonus, not a burden. The third edition of the Survival Guide is fully revised and updated for today’s bright, creative, talented kids. Based on 1,000 new surveys of gifted kids, it speaks directly to all gifted kids, in their language.

Perfectionism
What's Bad About Being Too Good?

By Miriam Adderholdt, Ph.D & Jan Goldberg

Perfectionism is a problem for many teenagers today. Here’s help for superkids, workaholics, type A’s, straight A’s, procrastinators, overachievers—and caring adults. This thought-provoking, encouraging book explains the differences between healthy ambition and unhealthy perfectionism and gives strategies for getting out of the perfectionism trap—from recognizing the symptoms to rewarding yourself for who you are, not what you do. This new edtion contains resources for readers who want to know more.

Fighting Invisible Tigers
Stress Management for Teens
(Revised & Updated Third Edition)

by Earl Hip

(AL 151)144 pages$14.95

Research suggests that adolescents are affected by stress in unique ways that can increase impulsivity and risky behaviors. While eliminating stress from life isn’t realistic, young people can learn to control how they respond to it. This book offers proven techniques that teens can use to deal with stressful situations in school, at home, and among friends. They’ll find current information on how stress affects health and decision making and learn stress-management skills to handle stress in positive ways—including assertiveness, positive self-talk, time management, relaxation exercises, and much more.

Psychology for Kids: 40 Fun Tests That Help You Learn About Yourself

By Jonni Kincher

Psychology for Kids invites young people to learn more about themselves through 40 tests that are fun, informative, and satisfying. They also empower young people to make good choices and decisions by learning to be true to themselves. Psychology for Kids II encourages them to learn more about other people--their family, classmates, neighbors, friends, and siblings. The experiments pose challenging, thought-provoking questions, stimulating children's natural curiosity and sense of play. At the same time they will sharpen their observation skills, learn to collect and evaluate data, and think deeply about what makes people "tick."

Psychology for Kids II: 40 Fun Experiments That Help You Learn About Others

By Jonni Kincher

PSYCHOLOGY FOR KIDS invites young people to learn more about themselves through 40 tests that are fun, informative, and satisfying. They also empower young epople to make good choices and decisions by learning to be true to themselves. PSYCHOLOGY FOR KIDS II encourages them to learn more about other people--their family, classmates, neighbors, friends, and siblings. The experiments pose challenging, thought-provoking questions, stimulating children's natural curiousity and sense of play. At the same time they will sharpen their observation skills, learn to collect and evaluate data, and think deeply about what makes people "tick."

Making The Most Of Today:
Daily Readings for Young People on Self-Awareness, Creativity & Self-Esteem

By Pamela Espeland & Rosemary Wallner

The first book of daily readings for all kids who want to know themselves better, be more creative, and feel better about themselves. A year’s worth of inspiration and affirmation. Each reading addresses an issue important to adolescents and teens—making choices and making friends, laughter and learning, feelings and families. Inspiring quotations, brief essays, and affirmations encourage kids to think more deeply about themselves and their world.