5 Disciplines Every Gifted Educator Must Master: A Story of Technology Integration and Servant Leadership by Brandi Maynard. ![]() Your Gifted Child by Joan Franklin Smutny Books for Gifted Educators/Homeschool Parents.You Know Your Child is Gifted When by Judy Galbraith.The Joy and Challenge Parenting Gifted Children by SENG.The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids by Sally Yahnke Walker.The Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Kids: Understanding and Guiding Their Development by Tracy Cross.The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? by Maureen Neihart, Sally Reis, Nancy Robinson, Sidney Moon.The Seven Year Parenting: With A Gifted Child: True Experiences Sharing with Parents Raising Gifted Children by Vien Chan.The Everything Parent’s Guide to Raising a Gifted Child by Sarah Robbins.Smart Parenting for Smart Kids by Eileen Kennedy-Moore.Raising Gifted Kids: Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Exceptional Child Thrive by Dr.Raising Your Gifted Child 101 by Cathy Wilson.Parents’ Guide to IQ Testing and Gifted Education: All You Need to Know to Make the Right Decisions for Your Child by David Palmer.Parenting Gifted Children by Jennifer Jolly, Donald Treffinger, Tracy Inman, Joan Franklin Smutny.Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions by Pat Harvey and Jeanine Penzo.On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children by Tracy Cross.Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children by Olenchak, Goerss, Beljan, Webb, Webb, & Amend.Living with Intensity by Susan Daniels (Editor), Michael M.How Am I Smart, A Parents Guide to Multiple Intelligences by Kathy Koch.Gifted, Raising Children Intentionally by Chris Davis.Bringing Out the Best: A Guide for Parents of Young Gifted Children by Jacqulyn Saunders, Pamela Espeland.A Parents Guide to Gifted Children by James T.Heilbronner, Jennifer Heilbronner Munoz, Sarah Heilbronner 10 Things Not to Say to Your Gifted Child: One Family’s Perspective by Nancy N.Soon after her IQ test, Oakley stopped showing up in the news. "I don't think any adult is ever going to go, 'Damn, I didn't do my GCSEs aged nine.'" As of the 2010 article, Fraser planned to keep Oakley in school with her peers, and a Google search for Oakley's name doesn't unearth any evidence that her mother deviated from the plan to let her be a kid. "What every parent wants for their children is to give them a happy, balanced, enjoyable childhood," Fraser told The Guardian. That information hasn't done much to change Oakley's daily life. At three, Oakley's IQ was tested and determined to be 160, reportedly the same as Stephen Hawking's. "But my mum was like, 'you're too young, calm down.'"Ĭharlotte Fraser feels the same way about her precocious daughter, Karina Oakley. "I actually wanted to start when I was seven," she told CNN about college. ![]() According to Okade, hers is not a case of a pushy parent making all the calls. CNN recently profiled a British-Nigerian 10-year-old named Esther Okade who's already earning top marks in a distance-learning university and wants to pursue her PhD in financial maths starting at 13. Child prodigies make for good human interest stories, though the circumstances are not always so fraught. The custody battle becomes a point of media interest in Gifted, and that's also a very plausible plot point. The adults have to decide her path for her. The toughest piece of the equation is that since Mary is only seven, she has no agency here. His sister entrusted her child to him before she died, and he's determined to honor her wishes by keeping Mary safe from the pressures of the world as long as he can. The screenplay by Tom Flynn presents a parenting conundrum: if a child is inordinately skilled in some area, do you do them a disservice by failing to nurture that skill or by prioritizing that skill over just being a kid? Evans' character Frank isn't making that decision on his own. And their parents also have had to figure out the best path for them. Gifted isn't based on a true story, but kids like the fictional Mary have made extraordinary academic progress at a young age. He stands firm on one decision which pulls him into a custody battle with her grandmother: that the young math prodigy be raised like a normal kid and not a genius. In his new movie Gifted, out April 7, Chris Evans plays the uncle and guardian of Mary, a seven-year-old with a head for numbers. It's all choices when it comes to raising kids, and while I'm not a parent, I imagine that some of them are just made on faith. They touch on what to feed kids, where they should sleep, how much and what kind of media they're exposed to, what fabrics to clothe them in, and so on. There are about as many philosophies of child-rearing as there are screaming toddlers in a Toys 'R Us on a Saturday afternoon.
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