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Giftedness
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My View: Ten myths about gifted students and programs for the gifted- By: Carolyn Coil
Definitions of Giftedness
Giftedness Defined
Social and Emotional Learning
Myths about Gifted Students
What is Giftedness? Gifted . . .You Know What That Means, Right?
Acceleration
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Acceleration- Davidson Institute
The Acceleration Question: Should Gifted Children Skip Grades?
Should Gifted Students Be Grade-Advanced?
Anxiety
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9 Things Every Parent with an Anxious Child Should Try
10 Tips to Parent your Anxious Child- printable attached to this tab
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Printable Link- tips
13 Helpful Phrases You Can Say to Calm an Anxious Child
13 Things to Remember if You Love a Person With Anxiety
Anxious Kids at School. How to Help them Soar
Anxiety in Kids: How to Turn it Around and Protect Them For Life
Building Emotional Intelligence: What to Say to Children When They Are Anxious
Children's Books to Help with Anxiety-
Helping Gifted Students with Stress Management
Great tips! Helping Gifted Kids Cope with Anxiety and Depression: Tools for Parents and Teachers
How To Help Children Under 10 Cope With Anxiety
Mindfulness for Children: Fun, Effective Ways to Strengthen Mind, Body, Spirit
Monitoring Anxiety in Your Gifted Child
Tips to Support Kids Experiencing ANXIETY
Worry and the Gifted: How Much is Too Much?
Death
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Death- Children's Books
How Children Understand Death
How to Talk to Kids about Death
Depression
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Book: Raising an Optimistic Child: A Proven Plan for Depression-Proofing Young Children - for Life
Existential depression in gifted individuals
Intensity, Anxiety & Depression - The Dark Side of Giftedness
Worry, Stress, and Depression
Discipline
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9 Tips for Parenting the Explosive Child
10 Ways to Discipline Without Controlling Our Kids
25 Alternatives to Time-Outs, Grounding & Taking Things Away
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Cheat Sheet
Book Recommendation: The Explosive Child
Books to Help Teach Kids Good Behavior
How to Discipline a Child with ADHD
How to Parent a 2E Child
Lives in the Balance- Author of The Explosive Child
Love and Logic
Tips for Parents: Positive Discipline for Gifted Children
Tips for Parents: Real World Parenting - How to Practice Effective Discipline, Nurture Creativity and Resilience, and Still Like Each Other!
Tips for Parents: Positive Boundaries - Where to Draw the Lines
Why I Will Never Use a Behavior Chart Again- Classroom or at home
Emotional Intensity/Overexcitability
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Anger- 50 games and activities for Anger
Anger and Sensory- Sensory Hacks to Calm an Angry Child
Books for Gifted Kids- Intensity and More
Being an Emotional Coach- Emotional Intensity
Cool Down Cubes
Emotional intensity in gifted children
Emotional Intensity in Gifted Children
How a Pipe Cleaner Can Stop Your Child’s Meltdowns!
How the Gifted Cope With Their Emotions
I Can Calm Book- on Video
Just Breathe- video for kids on how to handle anger
Overexcitability and the highly gifted child
Overexcitability and the Gifted
The Loneliness of the Gifted and Genius- Great chart!
Failure
Friendship
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12 Tips for Making and Keeping Friends
25 Children's Books About Friendship
38 Children's Books About Friendship- Lots of Levels of Friendship
The Butterfly Effect
Children's Books About Friendship and Friends
Friendships of Gifted Elementary School Children
Friendship Soup
Friendship Video for Kids
Kid's Health- Topic Friendship Woman's and Children's Health Network
Play Partner or Sure Shelter: What Gifted Children Look for in Friendship
Dealing with Bullying: Helping Bullied Kids and Teens
Helping Kids Deal with Bullies
Homework
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6 Ways to Help Your Grade-Schooler
How to Do Homework Without Throwing Up
Love and Logic Homework Battles
Self-Regulating Learning and Academically Talented Students
Ten Homework Tips
What parents can do to help get their children get organized
US Department of Education – “Homework Tips for Parents”
Introversion
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So Apparently There Are 4 Kinds of Introversion- Quiz at the end- see what you are
Learning Style
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Multiple-intelligences test- fun for an adult and can do for your child- What kind of learner are you?
What is your Learning Style (and homework tips) by School Family
Organization
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12 Ways to Develop Your Child's Organizational Skills
Article: Parenting: Raise Independent Children, Are you raising responsible or contingent children? Published on November 17, 2010 by Jim Taylor, Ph.D.
Visuals to get ready for bed, school and homework
Perfectionism
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11 Problems Only Perfectionists Know
Helping Gifted Students Cope with Perfectionism
Mistakes? What your child can do:
Tips for Parents: Perfectionism Resources
Tips for Parents: Freeing Our Families from Perfectionism
Tips for Parents: Perfectionism
Underachievement
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AEGUS- Association for the Gifted of Underachieving Students
Gifted Underachievers- Gifted and Talented Education. ACT Government
Meeting the needs of gifted underachievers – individually!
Why Some Kids Bounce Back from Challenges and Others Don’t
2e Kids- Twice Exceptional: ADHD, Autism, Sensory, and more
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5 Tips to Conquer Homework with a 2E Kid- by Up Parenting Creek
Calvin: The Unexpected Gifted Kid
ADHD
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ADHD- Writing Strategies for Students with ADHD
Distracted Students: Tips for Fighting Distractions and Getting Homework Done
Food Dye and ADHD
Homework Help for Children with ADHD Students at School (older)
Advocating for your 2e child
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Gifted Parenting Support: Advocating for the Twice Exceptional
Simulation for parents of 2e kids- very good!
Autism
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Autism Awareness- 10 Things You Should Know- teens view
Autism Society
Autism Speaks
AutismWeb: A Parent's Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder
National Autism Association
Temple Grandin- The World Needs All Kinds of Minds
Smart-Shaming: Sorry But Your Child Is Too Bright To Qualify for Help
What is Autism? Autism Speaks
Why "High Functioning" Autism Is So Challenging
Dyscalculia- Trouble with Math
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11 Facts About the Math Disorder Dyscalculia
Understanding Dyscalculia
Dyslexia
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5 Things Your Middle-Schooler With Dyslexia Can Say to Self-Advocate
Understood
Jonathan Mooney- The Short Bus- Part 1
Jonathan Mooney- The Short Bus Part 2
Teaching the Right Brain Child
Sensory- SPD
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7 Smart Sensory Tricksto help Troubled Sleepers
100 Art Therapy Exercises - The Updated And Improved List
A Child's View of Sensory Processing
Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities or Supersensitivities in Gifted Children
Kids video- Sensory Processing Disorder
Raising a Sensory Smart Child
Sensory Check list
SPD Foundation
The Sensory Spectrum
General Tools and Videos
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Feellings Song- ages 3-8
Second Step- Stop Name that Feeling Calm Down
Sesame Street: Mark Ruffalo: Empathy
Stop Name that Feeling Calm Down- K-2
2e Websites
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2e Newsletter
Council for Exceptional Children
LD Online
Psychological Tests- various online tests
The Gifted Resource Center of New England
Understood.org- one of my favorites!
Adult Giftedness
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Fostering Adult Giftedness: Acknowledging and Addressing Affective Needs of Gifted Adults
Gifted adults: Can You Hear the Flowers Sing?
Gifted adults and relationships: Ten sources of conflict
MY KID MIGHT BE GIFTED; BUT I’M NOT
Social & Emotional Issues: What Gifted Adults Say About Their Childhoods
Under 5
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Preschoolers and Praise: Messages That Can Help Kids Grow
The Benefits of Helping Preschoolers Understand and Discuss their Emotions
Family/Parenting
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Divorce
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Helping Your Gifted Child Cope with Parental Divorce
Helping Your Gifted Child Through Divorce: Part 1
Helping Your Gifted Child Through Divorce: Part 2
Tips for Parents: Helping Your Gifted Child Cope with Parental Divorce
6 Important Ways for Parents to Nurture a Gifted Child
101 Fun Things to Do with Kids this Summer
A 26-step program for good parents gone badOverparenting Anonymous-
101 Free (or Low Cost) Things to Do This Summer
Age Appropriate Chores
Dinner Time/Car Time Table Topics
Gifted Women With Gifted Kids- Exhilarating or Exhausting
Go Noodle- Need a time to get out energy- this is it!
Helicopter Parenting: Why It's Not Good for Your Teen
How Gifted Children Impact the Family
How (Not) to Argue with Gifted Children
How to Talk to Your Child About Being Distracted and Unfocused
Learning Life Skills: List of Household Tasks for Different Ages and Stages
Summer Reading List
What Overparenting Looks Like From a Stanford Dean’s Perspective
Summer Reading List- Hulstrom K-8 site
Tune in to your gifted child's needs
Use Your Words Wisely- How to Talk to Others.
Siblings
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20 Tips to Stop Quibbling Siblings and Promote Sibling Harmony
Great Books About Sibling Rivalry
Handling Sibling Fights- Children's Network
The Achiever, the Peacemaker and the Life of the Party: How Birth Order Affects Personality
Teens
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Difficult Passage: Gifted Girls in Middle School
Teens Try Out “Real Life” With Internships For Academic Credit
Just for Fun
3-D Art and Sculpture Ideas for Kids
9 Fun Math YouTube Channels for School Age Kids
PBS- Birth Order- First Born
PBS- Birth Order, In the Middle
PBS- Birth Order- The Youngest
Summer Reading Challenge
Top 10 Myths in Gifted Education-video
Top Summer Camps for Gifted Children
What Students Can Learn from Giving TEDx Talks
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