Peak Performance for Smart Kids provides success strategies, activities, tools, real-life examples, and checklists for parents to employ to help their kids achieve to their highest potential. Even the most talented child will not succeed if he or she has not developed the mental, psychological, and emotional skills to face the heavy demands of high performance. Maureen Neihart, a psychologist and leading authority on talent development in children, examines seven mental habits of successful kids, providing practical approaches for developing them in talented children of all ages in this easy-to-read guide for parents and teachers.By working with parents to complete the activities included in this book, high-ability kids will learn to manage stress and anxiety, set and achieve goals, use mental rehearsal to improve performance, manage their moods and emotions, practice optimistic thinking, and resolve their frustrations of needing to belong while needing to achieve. With its research-based strategies and unique approach to maximizing potential, this is a book from which every parent of smart kids can benefit!

Peak Performance for Smart Kids: Strategies and Tips for Ensuring School Success

Maureen Neihart

Paw Prints

The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? offers an examination of the essential topics teachers, parents, and researchers need to know about the social and emotional development of gifted children. Instigated by a task force convened by the National Association for Gifted Children and written by leading scholars in the field of gifted education, the book includes chapters on peer pressure and social acceptance, resilience, delinquency, and underachievement. The book also summarizes several decades worth of research on special populations, including minority, learning-disabled, and gay and lesbian gifted students. Concise, comprehensive, meticulously researched, and wide-ranging in its coverage, The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? is essential reading for those who wish to enable gifted students to develop their strengths and encourage them to make the contributions of which they are capable.

The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know?

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Nancy Robinson

Sally Reis

Sidney Moon

Psychology & Counseling

Prufrock Press

ABOUT THE BOOK  Everyone desires happiness, and it's not as elusive as we think. How do some people endure great adversity, and still emerge happy and fulfilled? They have learned that happiness lies not in what happens, but how we respond to it.  In this book, accomplished psychologist Dr Maureen Neihart shares the "vaccines" you need to release your full potential and keep life's troubles from holding you back - and the surprising new science behind them. Learn simple, yet proven and powerful ways to keep your optimism and drive, recover from setbacks and failures, and build lives of health, hope and joy for yourself and your family.

Happiness is a State of Mine

Armour Publishing Pte Ltd

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