Parent Relationships & Adult Gifted

Chapter 12

Guiding the Gifted Child by Webb, Meckstroth and Tolan

Parent Relationships

• Stresses of parenting; setting parental priorities
• Reacting to the urgent rather than the important
• Special time for parents; recharging your own batteries
• Dual parent, single parent, step-parent issues; difficulties in blending families
• Importance of having house rules
• Need for communication and consistency (family huddle)
• Super-parent versus reality

Adult Gifted

• The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

Handouts

1. The Ten Commitments at a Glance www.10commitments.net

2. Can you hear the flowers sing? Issues for gifted adults. by Deirdre Lovecky (www.SENGifted.org)

3. Fostering adult giftedness: Acknowledging and addressing affective needs of gifted adults by Sharon Lind (www.SENGifted.org)

4. Discovering the gifted ex-child by Stephanie Tolan (www.SENGifted.org)

5. Gifted Adults in work by Noks Nauta & Franz Corten (www.SENGifted.org)

6. Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

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