Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out: A Guide to the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Kids

by James R. Delisle

Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out provides an engaging and encouraging look at raising gifted children today. A follow-up to the best-selling Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children, this new edition focuses on the social and emotional aspects of giftedness, highlighting new information on the issues of perfectionism, self-advocacy, underachievement, mindfulness, and the impact of technology on gifted kids' relationships. The book also features a section on life beyond college, for those readers whose children are no longer children. Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out features real-life stories about the lives of gifted children and how they and their parents recognize and enjoy the many intellectual talents and social and emotional insights they possess.

Genres: Parenting

150 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2018

Reviews

[Morgan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Informative, but needed to work harder to address the inequities inherent in determining giftedness in children and how he defends the idea that some children are gifted and some are not, given the ways we know society marginalizes certain groups vs others. Not enough exploration of diversity made the book uncomfortable at times.

[Lewie Dunn · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the work by Delisle, it is truly set up as a guide for families who have a gifted student in the family. It guides parents from helping them to interact with their child's school and to advocate for their child. It also aids parents in understanding their child and gives several examples of how to do this. But this work also carries the gifted child from school into college and even into adulthood. Delisle cites his entire educational career and what he personally discovered in assisting Gifted students. It is not meant to be a answer all to every problem, Delisle makes it clear NO TWO children are alike, each has its own needs and desires. But instead the work serves a purpose in that as a guide it helps to show what to do and has a reference and resource section. The resource section not only covers publications but also many state level resources not only in the United States but also Canada. He demonstrates that sometimes methods from a century ago still work today and some new ideas can be molded to fit most situations. He often quotes such noted researchers like Leta Hollingworth and Nationally recognized organizations. Unlike many works along the same lines, Purfrock has this worked priced at only $17.95 and its size of only 212 pages makes it very easy to read and reread to truly assist the parents and guardians of gifted children. It is also a good read for those gifted children that are now adults and facing the world today. It opens many doors and shows the reader what is on the other side and where to seek help when they step thru that door. This work would fit into a public library and into all levels of media centers so that educators could provide it as a reference guide to parents. Also University libraries as a guide for students in pursuit of working with gifted children.

[Alison · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is great if all you’re looking for is guidance on how to emotionally support your gifted child. I was hoping that it would give guidance on how to mentally challenge my gifted child, and how to find enrichment opportunities in a public school setting. In that sense, this book didn’t offer anything helpful.

[Michelle Love-Day · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an easy and encouraging read for parents. I enjoyed the examples and connection from his previous book Parenting Gifted Kids: Tops for Raising Happy and Successful Children.
He is a great writer and helps parents be proud and not downplay their child's giftedness for the sake of others.

[Rachelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

4+ stars.

A ton of well researched and hands-on experience is shared in this book about understanding gifted children. It'll be one I continue to refer to over the years.