Keeping your kids out front without kicking them from behind : how to nurture high-achieving athletes, scholars, and performing artists

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Keeping your kids out front without kicking them from behind : how to nurture high-achieving athletes, scholars, and performing artists

Ian Tofler, Theresa Foy DiGeronimo

Jossey-Bass, c2000

  • : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and index

Contents of Works

  • Debating what is best for our children
  • From benign to abusive
  • Step 1. Evaluate "talent"
  • Step 2. Selecting classes, schools, and camps that cater to high-achieving children
  • Step 3. Beware abusive instructors
  • Step 4. Weigh the cost of sacrifice
  • Step 5. Look beyond the talent into the future
  • Step 6. Beware the red flags of achievement by proxy distortion
  • Step 7. Take a good look at your parenting style

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