Gifted Child

Focusing on the Strengths of Gifted Children and Motivate Them Properly

De: Angela Wayning

Narrado por: Casey Wayman

This audiobook focuses on the emotional and inspirational support gifted children need to accomplish the goals they or you have set. It’s not necessarily easy to be gifted, with all the high expectations and a brain that races at night when you are trying to sleep and are actually coming up with a million ideas to implement.

Gifted children often have a hard time staying focused on one thing, unless it’s something they are passionate about. Then they are hyper-focused. This and other problems can be address when talking to teachers, as well as the fact that some gifted kids seem to underachieve for various reasons. The best ways to motivate your gifted children are here, as well as tactics to deal with bullies, which often target more sensitive and intelligent children.

Bullying is one of the last topics addressed in this guide: How to talk about it with the teacher, how to avoid becoming a target more quickly, and how to make it go away.

If any of these things interest you, then I encourage you to get started right away.

©2020 Angela Wayning (P)2020 Angela Wayning

This is a hard review to write

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Frankly, this book is weird. It purports to be about gifted children and to cover definition, motivation, and techniques to help parents understand their gifted children and how to effectively work with them.
On the one hand, this book, particularly the first few chapters, gives some accurate information, but several things happen as the reader continues:
The bias of the writer becomes more and more obvious, the information is lopsided, all too often giving far more weight to the perspectives of private schooling as opposed to speaking specifically to give to children and giving a balanced view of both private and public education. By the last chapter the reader has the distinct impression that the author either knows very little about education in general or has no respect for it or for the people who deliver it.

Weirdly, in the last chapter the author seems to have lost all desire to talk about gifted kids and spends her time speaking to special education in general, concentrating on students who are being bullied, with significant emphasis on students who are being bullied by teachers. That's an example of what I mean when I say it's lopsided: while bullying is definitely something to be dealt with, and is serious, in the context of this book it just seems like a rant from someone who wants to get something out of her system.

There is also a lot of repetition of those accurate, if VERY basic definitions---but very little variety in suggestions for implementing the techniques she mentions. She repeats a few basic statements over and over.

Speaking as s a retired gifted facilitator, a secondary English teacher of all ability levels, and a teacher of all grade levels from kindergarten through community college, I cannot imagine myself handing this book to a parent to read if they were having problems understanding how to deal with any student, much less a gifted student. It might be useful as a sort of bullet point list of terms to discuss with the parent, but that would be pretty much all of it. The teacher, facilitator, counselor, etc. would need to implement a great deal of expansion of the statements in this book for it to be useful---and I think I could find resources that would do a better job for even basic outlining of concerns of gifted children and their parents.