Keeping your kids out front without kicking them from behind : how to nurture high-achieving athletes, scholars, and performing artists
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Bibliographic Information
Keeping your kids out front without kicking them from behind : how to nurture high-achieving athletes, scholars, and performing artists
Jossey-Bass, c2000
- : alk. paper
Available at 3 libraries
Note
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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Keeping Your Kids Out Front Without Kicking Them From Behind is acommon sense guide for moms and dads of talented and giftedchildren. In this practical book, authors Dr. Ian Tofler andTheresa Geronimo--experts in the field of parenting--present theirSeven-Step Program for Encouraging and Protecting High-AchievingChildren. This innovative program offers guidance for establishinghealthy boundaries between parents' ambitions and the needs oftheir talented children and clear-cut instructions for helpingchildren balance achievement with happiness.
To read Debating What is Best for Our Children, an excerpt fromthis book,click here.
Table of Contents
- Introduction. AN UP-CLOSE LOOK AT PARENTS AND CHILDREN. Debating What is Best for Our Children. From Benign to Abusive. A SEVEN-STEP PROGRAM FOR ENCOURAGING AND PROTECTING HIGH-ACHIEVINGCHILDREN. Step 1: Define and Evaluate "Talent" Why Evaluate Talent?
- Six Points of Talent Evaluation
- Advice from the Experts. Step 2: Selecting Classes, Schools, and Camps that Cater toHigh-Achieving Children Evaluate Four Motives for Special Training:1) Improvement of Skill, 2) Supportive Environment, 3) EliteExposure, 4) Resume Building
- and Advice From the Experts. Step 3: Beware Abusive Instructors Avoiding the Win-At-Any-CostInstructor
- The Burden of Star Makers
- Understanding The Verbal Batterer
- The Danger of the Parent Substitute
- Beware the Sexual Abuser
- Advice from the Experts. Step 4: Weigh the Cost of Sacrifice Childhood Sacrifices
- Parental Sacrifices
- Sibling Sacrifices
- Advice from the Experts. Step 5: Look Beyond the Talent Into the Future Look Beyond theTalent
- Look Where You're Going
- Beware the Downside of Competition
- Watch Those Social Skills
- Minimize Chronic Stress
- Nurture Your Parent/Child Relationship
- Advice from the Experts. Step 6: Beware the Red Flags of Achievement by Proxy DistortionBurnout
- Over-training
- Depression
- Psychological Pain and Illness
- Eating Disorders
- Substance Abuse
- Answering a Cry For Help. Step 7: Take a Good Look at your Parenting Style AutocraticController
- Narcissistic and Needy
- Financially Hungry
- Overly Competitive
- Frustrated Wanna-Be or Has-Been
- Living in Denial
- Untangling the Roots of ABPD
- Encourage and Support. Epilogue. Chapter Notes.
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