Books for Parents and Teachers

Adderholt-Elliot, Miriam. Perfectionism: What’s Bad About Bein= g Too Good.

Minneapolis: Free Spirit. 1987.

Davidson, Jan and Bob. Genius Denied. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Galbraith, Judy. You Know Your Child is Gifted WhenR= 30;. Minneapolis, MN, Free

= Spirit, 2000.

Kerr, Barbara. = Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood & the Search for Meaning. Scottsdale,

= AZ: Great Potential Pr= ess, 2001.

Kerr, Barbara. = Smart Girls Two: a New Psychology of Girls, Women, and giftedness.

&nbs= p; Dayton, Ohio, Ohio Psychology Press, 1994.

Levine, Mel. The Myth of Laziness. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Rimm, Syliva. <= /span>How to Parent so Children will Learn. Watertown, <= st1:State w:st=3D"on">WI: Apple, 1990.

Rimm, Sylvia. <= /span>Why Bright Kids get Poor Grades. New York , Three Rivers Press, 1995

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Rogers, Karen B. Re-Forming Gifted Education:&nbs= p; How Parents and Teachers Can

Match the Program to the= Child. Scottsdale, AZ, Great Potential Press, 2002.

Streznewski, Marylou.= Gifted Grown Ups: The mixed blessings of Extraordinary=

Pote= ntial. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Strip, Carol A. = Helping Gifted Children SOAR: a Practical Guide For Pare= nts and

Teac= hers. Scottsdale, AZ, Gifted Psychology Press, 2002.

Vail, Priscilla L.&nb= sp; Smart Kids with School Problems: Things to Know & Ways to Hel= p.

= New York: New American Library, 1987.

Webb, James. Guiding the Gifted Child. Columb= us, OH:&nbs= p; Ohio Psychology Press, 1994.

Webb, James et al.&nb= sp; Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Chi= ldren and Adults.

= Scottsdale, = AZ, Great Potential Press, 2005

Please take a look at the Parent Shelf in the Library. We have many parenting books that may be of interest to you as a parent of a gifted chil= d.

Ethel Breithaupt and Jeannie McLaughlin

Phel= ps Center for Gifted Education

Library Media Specialists

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