Title: Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students Pdf Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings
Author: Christine Fonseca
Published Date: 2015-12-01
Page: 225
"Emotional Intensity In Gifted Students is a resource that can help parents and teachers understand why gifted children have such passionate--and sometimes explosive--feelings and behaviors . . . Special worksheets, checklists, and tip sheets are included. These features recap the material covered in the chapter and provide specific directions about how to implement the information in real life.This book would be beneficial for parents and teachers of gifted children." - VOYA Trained as an educational psychologist, Christine Fonseca is dedicated to helping children and adults connect with their personal truth. She is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction, a nationally recognized speaker, and an international consultant and coach. Critically acclaimed titles include Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students and Letting Go.
Teaching children how to manage their intense emotions is one of the most difficult aspects of parenting or educating gifted children. Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope With Explosive Feelings provides a much-needed resource for parents and educators for understanding of why gifted children are so extreme in their behavior and how to manage the highs and lows that accompany emotional intensity. Presented in an easy-to-read, conversational style, this revised and updated second edition contains additional chapters addressing temperament and personality development, as well as expanded role-plays and strategies designed to show parents and teachers how to interact and guide gifted children in a way that teaches them how to recognize, monitor, and adjust their behavior. Updated resources and worksheets make this practical resource a must-read for anyone wishing to make a positive and lasting impact on the lives of gifted children.
Amazing! As I read this book I would find the answers to all the "whys" y asked myself in regards to my highly cognitively gifted son's very bewildering behavior responses to stressful situations. I was also able to understand my highly gifted students' apparently demanding and exacting behaviors and how to respond to them in a way to provide guidance. These kids have emotional needs and sensitivities that most kids do not experience, therefore, they need to be supported by understanding and caring adults if we want to harness all their potential to advance our society. This book is an essential read for those who want to make a difference in gifted kids' lives and who dream of channeling their potential to improve our world.The text is well organized and easy to understand. I recommend it to parents and teachers.Eye opening I am blessed with two highly capable children. Now that they are 8 and 10, i just finished has book and FINALLY feel that I understand the root causes of their struggles and challenges, and have tools at hand to help all of us survive this adventure! In fact, I think we will come out in great shape, thanks largely to this book. If your kid is consistently boggling your mind at their maturity and abilities combined with incredibly intense emotions (dramatically out of proportion to the circumstances, much of the time), take the time to read this! It’s very important that you do!Brilliant theory. Totally unrealistic advice. Impractical. Awkward language. The longer I read it the more dissatisfied I became with this book. Initially I was very pleased. I am ultimately glad I bought it and read it, mainly because it gave me a new way to think about my son. The concepts and the way it prompts you to conceive of your children are all fundamentally good. The book itself is entirely too short on translating this knowledge into practical action.There are case studies, and I like them. I like the range of the behaviours and symptoms in the archetypal children. The problem is that the case studies often say "After a family meeting, the parents gained some really subtle insight...". What is missing is the process the parents followed to reach that subtle insight. What questions did they ask? What answers did they get? How did those answers yield that insight? The scenarios often contain overly simplistic resolutions that sound like "they made some changes and everything got much better." There is no exploration of the changes the parents tried that didn't work, how they could recognise that it didn't work, and how they picked something new until they hit on the right technique. No change is a magic wand that works perfectly on the first try. Life isn't so simple that when you do the right thing, you'll do it correctly on the first try and it will be obvious that you've done the right thing. Too many of the resolutions are presented as a fait accompli, or perhaps obvious with hindsight.Many of the "worksheets" involve a series of yes/no questions or questions that have 2 discreet answers ("Is your discipline positive or punitive?"). There is no discussion of "If you answered yes to question 2, this might indicate X, Y, or Z." These worksheets also ask pretty unsubtle questions like "Is your discipline effective?". Which parent, reading a book about coping with children, is thinking "Yeah, I got that all sorted out"? So given that the parent is probably answering "no", why are we asking the question at all? A "worksheet" needs some guidance on how to interpret and respond to the answers that you give. Frankly, I doubt that a series of yes/no questions, especially with no guidance on how to interpret the answers, will give me a sophisticated understanding of the problems in my household. At best it prompts a bunch of unstructured thinking as I ultimately consider lots of my behaviour and try to cook it down to a "yes" or a "no". And questions like "How do you contribute to the household?" are not great questions to ask a child (from the "Child's Household Inventory" worksheet). We need to ask children lots of other, simpler questions and use their answers to derive the answer of how they contribute to the household.There is text that appears in boxes sprinkled throughout the various chapters. Most of that text feels like it was copy/pasted from a PowerPoint presentation, perhaps a talk given at a conference of educators or psychologists. They are bullet points with typical presentation-style grammar and they don't stand alone. They need narrative to make sense of them—narrative that the book often lacks. Rather than present some bullet points in a checklist, and then explain each one in detail, the bullet points are often just presented on their own.I find the book a bit repetitive, too. Sometimes it is even consciously repetitive using phrases like "...as I already said...". The farther I got into the book, the faster I was reading. I started skimming more.There are a lot of sterile and business-like expressions and suggestions. The "family meeting" could not be more dreadful. It reads like a business meeting and lacks any acknowledgement of the messy, emotional, complicated interactions we all have. It is hopelessly simplistic and offers no suggestions about how to do it successfully or hints at what difficulties you might encounter in having them. My 8-year-old does not come to a "meeting" with the attitude my 38-year-old colleagues do. So advice like "build an agenda with the children's input" need a lot more fleshing out than that one, bald statement. And some of the sterile, clinical language really takes away from the practicality of trying the suggestions. In describing what the parents did in one of the scenarios, the book says "his parents initiated contact with school personnel". In other words "his parents called his teacher." The vaulted language makes it sound much more complicated than it really is and it creates unnecessary cognitive distance between the reader and the suggestions.You will want other books to fill in the areas that this book glosses over. You'll want separate books on relaxation techniques, helping children recognise emotions, label them, and cope with them, and how to run "family meetings" (if you go that route). This book motivates all those things and puts them in context, but gives you a very incomplete picture of how to do them well.Finally, the kindle version is riddled with spelling errors ("dimculties"?), hyphenation errors, spacing errors and more. As an author myself, I find that very distracting.
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