Writing Your Own Script: A Parent's Role in the Gifted Child's Social Development (Perspectives in Gifted Homeschooling)

Does your gifted or 2e child have enough friends? What qualifies as "enough"? Whom should they be friends with and how can they keep those friends?Parents of asynchronous children are often criticized as "helicopter parents" by others who don't understand the need for scaffolding. Others take a complete hands-off approach our of fear or self-doubt. In their latest book, Corin Barsily Goodwin and Mika Gustavson, authors of "Making the Choice: When Typical School Doesn't Fit Your Atypical Child," explore a parent's role in their child's social development and how we know when we are doing too much or too little to create age- and intellectually appropriate social opportunities for your child.In "Writing Your Own Script: A Parent's Role in the Gifted Child's Social Development," Corin and Mika will show you how to help your child to discover the joy of true friendships based on common interests, shared values, and mutual understanding-and help you understand your role in guiding them!

Corin Barsily Goodwin is founder and Executive Director of Gifted Homeschoolers Forum. She has been publishing and presenting in the fields of giftedness, education, special needs, and parenting for over a decade. She currently resides in Washington with her husband, two teens, and three cats. Mika Gustavson, MA, MFT, is a psychotherapist, and director of Gifted Matters, specializing in helping the gifted to thrive. She maintains a private practice and trains other professionals on issues touching on giftedness, homeschooling, and parenting. She also writes about these topics, and does her best to head up GHF's Professional Division. She works, lives, and homeschools in Silicon Valley, with her husband and teenage son, and too many knitting and crochet projects.