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

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

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

Judy Galbraith, M.A.

This new and improved SURVIVAL GUIDE brings together two best-selling classics, The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide and The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide II. Thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated, it features new facts, findings, and insights 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 and Under

Judy Galbraith, M.A.

A classic introduction to growing up gifted, this upbeat, informative book has been newly revised and updated to meet the needs of today's young gifted children. This book has helped countless young gifted children realize they're not alone, they're not "weird," and being smart, talented, and creative is a bonus, not a burden. It answers their questions about why they think and learn the way they do, what "giftedness" and IQ really mean, how to handle high expectations (their own any everybody else's), how to make friends, how to steer clear of perfectionism, how to make school more challenging, how to cope with teasing, and much more.

Everything that made The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide unique nearly 15 years ago is still true. Based on surveys of hundreds of gifted kids (updated for the 90s), it's written for, not about, gifted children, and it speaks directly to them. And, at a time when gifted programs are being challenged, scaled back, or cut out of the curriculum it's more important than ever.

Stick Up For Yourself! Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power & Positive Self-Esteem

Gershen Kaufman, Ph.D., Lev Raphael, Ph.D., and Pamela Espeland

This empowering little book is for anyone who has ever been picked on, bossed around, or treated unfairly. Simple words and real-life examples teach assertiveness, responsibility, relationship skills, choice making, problem solving, goal setting, anger management and more. Children learn how to stick up for themselves with other kids (including bullies and teasers), siblings, even grown-ups. A special note to parents and teachers explores the "self-esteem backlash" and explains what self-esteem really is and why kids today need it more than ever.

The revised and updated Teacher's Guide reinforces and expands the messages of the student book with a step-by-step curriculum in ten easy-to-use sessions.

Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good?

Miriam Adderholdt, Ph.D & Jan Goldberg

Help is here for superkids, workaholics, type A's, straight A's, procrastinators, overachievers, and caring adults. This thought-provoking book explains the differences between healthy ambition and unhealthy perfectionism and gives strategies for getting ouf of the perfectionism trap. Help in recognizing the symptoms to rewarding yourself for who you are, not what you do. The revised and updated version includes new research and statistics on the causes and consequences of perfectionism, biographical sketches of famous perfectionists and risk takers and resources for readers who want to know more.

Fighting Invisible Tigers: A Stress Management Guide for Teens

Earl Hipp

Proven, practical advice for teens on coping with stress, being assertive, taking risks, making decisions, staying healthy, dealing with fears, building relationships, and much more. A perennial best-seller.

The Leader's Guide includes twelve independent, flexible step-by-step sessions teaching specific stress-management skills.

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

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

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."

The Kid's Guide To Service Projects: Over 500 Service Ideas for Young People Who Want To Make A Difference

Barbara A. Lewis

The Kid's Guide To Service Projects will inspire young people of all ages to get involved and make a difference. Kids can choose from a variety of topics--animals, community development, crime fighting, the environment, friendship, hunger, literacy, politics and government, safety, transportation, and more--our use the suggestions to brainstorm their own ideas. One section provides instructions for each step.

The Kid's Guide to Social Action: How to Solve the Social Problems You Choose & Turn Creative Thinking into Positive Action

Barbara A. Lewis

Newly revised, expanded, and updated, this award-winning guide includes everything kids need to make a difference in the world, from inspiring true stories to fill-out forms and up-to-date resources.

Making Every Day Count:  Daily Readings for Young People on Solving Problems, Setting Goals, and Feeling Good about Yourself

Pamela Espeland and Elizabeth Verdick

A year's worth of daily inspiration, affirmation, and advice helps kids face daily challenges, plan for the future, and appreciate their unique and wonderful qualities.

Making the Most of Today:  Daily Readings for Young People on Self-Awareness, Creativity, and Self Esteem

Pamela Espeland and 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.