A Parent's Guide to Gifted Teens: Living With Intense and Creative Adolescents

by Lisa Rivero

Gifted teenagers require special understanding in order to thrive. Learn how to understand your adolescent's intensity and excitability, how to nurture creativity and self-directed learning, how to offer support without taking control, and how to care for yourself as the parent of an intense and creative teen. This book helps parents to view the challenging years of middle school and high school not merely as college prep, but as a preparation for life.

183 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2010

About the author

Lisa Rivero is a writer, speaker, and the publisher of Hidden Timber Books in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She enjoys writing fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Some of her publications include a food and wellness column, magazine and journal articles, four non-fiction books, a middle-grade historical novel, and a blog at Psychology Today.

Reviews

[Mona · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lisa Rivero's book was exactly what I needed to read as my child moves into adolescence. I know so much about giftedness, and yet the changes of adolescence and the needed changes in my parenting felt overwhelming. Rivero gives clear and concise help to remind me of how intensity changes its focus, how I can best support my child's growing independence, and prepare him for life. Great for parents of not-yet-teens, too.