Welcome to our Kemp Parent Gifted Resource Library.
We have 10 books available on a variety of topics for you to check out at your convenience.
When you click on "Check Out for Gifted Resource Books" it will redirect you to a sign out form for the book.
Complete all of the information and we will gladly get it to you.
Please be sure to return the book to us when you are finished.
We have 10 books available on a variety of topics for you to check out at your convenience.
When you click on "Check Out for Gifted Resource Books" it will redirect you to a sign out form for the book.
Complete all of the information and we will gladly get it to you.
Please be sure to return the book to us when you are finished.
A Love for Learning
Spark the motivation in your gifted child or student! Keep them eager and excited at home and in the classroom!
Gifted children are susceptible to many de-motivating factors, which can lead to depression and academic underachievement. The authors present concepts and techniques to counteract those factors, allowing a child's motivation to skyrocket.
Features the Four C's of Motivation:
~Creating Challenge
~Creating Control
~Creating Commitment
~Creating Compassion
Gifted children are susceptible to many de-motivating factors, which can lead to depression and academic underachievement. The authors present concepts and techniques to counteract those factors, allowing a child's motivation to skyrocket.
Features the Four C's of Motivation:
~Creating Challenge
~Creating Control
~Creating Commitment
~Creating Compassion
Breaking Through-Helping Girls Succeed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Even with increased pressure to involve more girls in STEM areas in education, parents are often left wondering what they can do to encourage their daughter's love of science, math, and technology from fading. In Breaking Through! Helping Girls Succeed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, topics ranging from how role models can make a difference to finding non-stereotypical toys and taking trips that inspire STEM discovery and engagement are illustrated with research evidence and real-life examples from girls and women.
Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students-Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings
Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope With Explosive Feelings provides a much-needed resource for parents and educators for understanding of why gifted children are so extreme in their behavior and how to manage the highs and lows that accompany emotional intensity. Presented in an easy-to-read, conversational style, this revised and updated second edition contains additional chapters addressing temperament and personality development, as well as expanded role-plays and strategies designed to show parents and teachers how to interact and guide gifted children in a way that teaches them how to recognize, monitor, and adjust their behavior.
The Impulsive, Disorganized Child-Solutions for Parenting with Executive Functioning Difficulties
The Impulsive, Disorganized Child: Solutions for Parenting Kids with Executive Functioning Difficulties helps parents pinpoint weak executive functions in their children, then learn how to help their kids overcome these deficits with practical, easy solutions. Impulsive, scattered, lost, unfocused, unprepared, disorganized: These are just a few of the words used to describe kids with executive functioning deficits, which commonly affect many children already diagnosed with ADHD, learning disabilities, and autism.
Letting Go of Perfect-Overcoming Perfectionism in Kids and Teens
Letting Go of Perfect: Overcoming Perfectionism in Kids pinpoints a crippling state of mentality among many kids today--the need to be absolutely perfect--and gives parents and teachers the guidance and support they need to help children break free of the anxieties and behaviors related to perfectionism.
Parenting Gifted Kids-Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children
Dr. Delisle puts forward 10 tips to parents of gifted children―ideas that reflect attitude and approach and allow for introspection and change, rather than quick, do-it-tonight solutions. Some topics of interest include understanding a child's giftedness, working with the school system, dealing with perfectionism in gifted kids, and being adult role models for children.
Along the way, stories from gifted children and their parents provide insight into the lives of these individuals.
Along the way, stories from gifted children and their parents provide insight into the lives of these individuals.
Quiet Kids-Help Your Introverted Child in an Extroverted
Being an introverted child is difficult, especially in an ever-increasingly noisy world. Often viewed as aloof, unmotivated or conceited, introverted children are deeply misunderstood by parents, educators and even their peers. This book is designed to provide parents with a blueprint for not only understanding the nature of introversion but provides specific strategies to teach their children how to thrive in a world that may not understand them.
Smart Boys
Boys will be boys--but gifted boys may need help. Depression, underachievement, sensitivity, and relationship struggles are just some of the issues that many smart boys face on a daily basis.
This book presents suggestions to help gifted young men embrace optimism, motivation, and achievement, and it offers thought-provoking insights and tips for engaging in successful interactions. There are also interviews with gifted adult men who have experienced and overcome crises or failures.
This book presents suggestions to help gifted young men embrace optimism, motivation, and achievement, and it offers thought-provoking insights and tips for engaging in successful interactions. There are also interviews with gifted adult men who have experienced and overcome crises or failures.
Why Smart Kids Worry and What Parents Can Do to Help
In this practical parenting resource, Allison Edwards guides you through the mental and emotional porcess of where your child's fears come from and why they are so hard to move past. For emotionally intelligent, observant, and inquisitive children who want to overcome anxiety, and for parents looking for a kid-friendly toolkit, Why Smart Kids Worry is the perfect resource that gives answers to questions such as:
- How do smart kids think differently
- What is the root of my child's anxiety and how can we overcome it?
- Should I let my child watch th enightly news on TV?
- How do I answer questions about terrorist, hurricanes, and other scary subjects?
Smart Parenting for Smart Kids-Nurturing Your Child's True Potential
Many bright children face special challenges:
- Some are driven by perfectionism;
- Some are afraid of effort, because they're used to instant success;
- Some routinely butt heads with authority figures;
- Some struggle to get along with their peers ;
- Some are outwardly successful but just don't feel good about themselves.
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- This practical and compassionate book explains the reasons behind these struggles and offers parents do-able strategies to help children cope with feelings, embrace learning, and build satisfying relationships. Drawing from research as well as the authors’ clinical experience, it focuses on the essential skills children need to make the most of their abilities and become capable, confident, and caring people.