We know emotional intensities and overexcitabilities are very much a reality for many gifted children. Sometimes these intensities are helpful and inspiring, and sometimes they can be crushing. We can all use some extra guidance so we can better support this population of students with their intensities, and perhaps Christine Fonseca's words will inspire new strategies to use at home. This book has 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon.

You may already have a copy of this highly recommended, award winning read, but it is still worthy of an additional mention for those that have not heard of it. Although it's a few years old (updated version coming soon), the four authors have decades of combined expertise and offer sound advice to help parents navigate a wide range of issues specific to raising a gifted child.

Lisa Van Gemert is a nationally recognized expert in the field of Gifted Ed. and has written a book that targets the great killer of joyful learning for children: their own perfectionism! As a mother of three highly gifted sons, she's been down a similar road as you and has excellent ideas for how you can help your child develop a growth mindset and embrace productive struggle. Lisa's writing is inviting and fun to read, and her advice applies to all ages.

We are all complex human beings with different traits and behaviors that can be difficult to understand. Throw in a giftedness label and it can all be overwhelming for a parent as well as the child. This book helps parents understand the what and why of misdiagnosis and what to do to better support their child so they can thrive. Parents of Twice Exceptional (2e) children will certainly appreciate this book written by a collection of experts in the field of Gifted Ed. and beyond. 

This book by Nancy Heilbronner might actually be at the top of the list for a number of good reasons. The author is a mother of gifted children and is an expert in the field of Gifted. Ed. This book takes a different approach to advising parents by getting right to the heart of what does NOT work - plus, her own children, now grown, contribute to the chapters about their own experiences! We need to check ourselves when it comes to how we speak to our gifted kids because words matter more than we realize, especially with highly sensitive kids with a propensity for perfectionism. "Praise their efforts, not their achievements."

Although it may be missing some of the  more recent releases,  Judith Halstead's anthology of 300 recommended books for gifted kids provides many excellent examples of works more advanced learners can connect with and enjoy. From the description, "Because gifted students often intensely identify with characters in books, it is important for them to read well-written books with complex characters and plots. When the characters in the books face some of the same issues and concerns that the gifted reader is facing, the child gains new insights into his or her own problems or worries, as well as potential ways of handling them." This book come highly recommended as a collection of MANY great independent reading choices.

If you are the parent of a neurodivergent gifted kiddo (and that is probably the majority of you),  Emily Kircher-Morris has just the podcast for you.  The topics for each episode vary widely, but all of them will be of interest to any parent of a child with twice exceptionality.  It is encouraging to know that there is such fantastic, expert help out there for parents whose child doesn't "fit in the box"... 

One of the newer podcasts dedicated to the topic of giftedness, this series of episodes from  Jill Hartsock and Jessica Mullin cover a wide variety of topics within the gifted world. With their combined experience of 40 years in Gifted Ed., these hosts offer insights into everything from acceleration to advocacy, research to perfectionism, and even the controversial topic of the label-- the "G" word: Gifted.