Peak Efficiency for Sensible Children
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Peak Efficiency for Sensible Children supplies success methods, actions, instruments, real-life examples, and checklists for fogeys to make use of to assist their children to attain their highest potential. Even essentially the most gifted baby won’t succeed if she or he has not developed the psychological, psychological, and emotional abilities to face the heavy calls for of excessive efficiency. Maureen Neihart, a psychologist and main authority on expertise growth in youngsters, examines seven psychological habits of profitable children, offering sensible approaches for growing them in gifted youngsters of all ages on this easy-to-read information for fogeys and academics.
By working with dad and mom to finish the actions included on this e book, high-ability children will be taught to handle stress and anxiousness, set and obtain objectives, use psychological rehearsal to enhance efficiency, handle their moods and feelings, apply optimistic considering, and resolve their frustrations of needing to belong whereas needing to attain. With its research-based methods and distinctive strategy to maximizing potential, it is a e book from which each and every guardian of sensible children can profit!
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Writer : Routledge; 1st version (April 15, 2008)
Language : English
Paperback : 184 pages
ISBN-10 : 1593633106
ISBN-13 : 978-1593633103
Merchandise Weight : 11.2 ounces
Dimensions : 6.14 x 0.45 x 9.21 inches
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Mark Cash –
As with this author’s other books, this one helps …
As with this author’s other books, this one helps me a lot in understanding my son. I will have to buy a new one though as it has been “borrowed” by his school director.
Vickie F. –
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The book was in great condition. They gave a 4 day window when it might arrive and it came on the very last day.
Nebz –
Just want I wanted
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Alyssa B. Thompson –
peak performance
reading it my husband is reading it as well. we think my son should read it to. homeroom teacher recommended it for us to read.
Lorel Shea –
An excellent resource!
Peak Performance for Smart Kids-Strategies and Tips for Ensuring School Success is a practical and well written guidebook. Author Maureen Neihart is an experienced child psychologist who has worked extensively with gifted youth and their families. She is known internationally as a leader in the field of talent development.Chapter one opens the book with, “What Do Coaches, Athletes, and Performing Artists Know that We Don’t?” Neihart states, ” There is a level of achievement at which further talent development takes more than ability and hard work. It requires psychological preparedness-mental and emotional skills that drive performance.” This is an important point, and perhaps the most salient of the book. What is it that distinguishes the highly intelligent kids who win awards from those who merely do well in school? Maybe not as much as you think. Niehart identifies seven mental competencies that drive performance. She stresses that these are skills that can be acquired through direct instruction and practice.Chapter two covers stress and anxiety. Stress isn’t all bad, the author points out, though too much can be psychologically crippling. Other chapters have titles such as, ” Out of the Comfort Zone: Moving Your Child to their Edge of Competence” and ” Reconciling the Need to Belong with the Need to Achieve.” She also notes how sleep and diet are important influences on energy and mood. There are nine chapters in all, and each offers valuable insight and tips.Chapter sidebars contain helpful vignettes about people who have overcome obstacles to success. Featured individuals include an Olympic diver and two Davidson Fellows. The emphasis here is on assisting children to make the most of their potential, and not “pushing” for academic success at the cost of all else. This book is not about creating superkids- it is rather about finding the appropriate challenge level for your child. The author points out what kids do not learn when they are allowed to coast. They miss the opportunity to learn study skills, time management, and how to deal with setbacks and disappointments. I know quite a few adults who could benefit from a lesson on goal setting or perseverance, and I am looking forward to practicing these strategies right alongside my children!I am happy to recommend Peak Performance for Smart Kids. This book offers information in a clear, accessible manner and the tips offered are relatively easy to practice and incorporate into regular use.
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When Theory meets Practice – Academic-Practitioner Links to nurture talent
There are quite a number of books in the market that promise to provide quick fixes on how to guarantee excellence, how to promote expertise among talented students, essentially cookbook strategies on how to mix and match certain conditions with the hopes of producing optimal performance. This book is not one of them.While deceptively thin and couched in layman’s terminologies that would be accessible to most people, each chapter has strong empirical underpinnings as well as solid theoretical foundations. I am in the academe and I use this book as an example to my teacher-students on how evidence based research need not be needlessly boring, unbearably tedious, and of absolutely no use at all to practitioners, parents, and teachers for whom the researches are targeted to begin with.What I love about this book is its ability to synthesize research and present them in such a way that it would be readily understandable and meaningful to its reader. It is concise, direct, and focused without lapsing into jargon, pedantry, or inspirational hoo-hah to entice the parents. The book in its entirety has a laser beam focus that answers essential questions it aimed to answer from its first chapter: “What do coaches, athletes and performing artists know that we don’t?” to learning what the “most important thing is” in chapter 9.Moreover, it contains actual real-life scenarios based on Professor Maureen Neihart’s extensive experience as a clinician/practitioner that bring all the concepts clearly to life. As a teacher educator, I know that my teacher-students appreciate the worksheets that accompany most of the key concepts being introduced. A parent can do this with his or her own child or a teacher can facilitate some of the suggested workshops/activities (with accompanying worksheets) in their own classroom.Needless to say, I give this a 5-star recommendation. I haven’t found a book yet that is comparable in terms of ease of reading, grounded in evidence-based research, highly up-to-date, as well as authentic enough to connect to each one of us who aim to promote talent, strive for excellence, be it among our kids or for our own students – or for ourselves.