Parenting Books and Other Books of Interest to Adults

Alvino, James, Parent's Guide to Raising a Gifted Child: Recognizing and Developing Your Child's Potential, 1996

Brockman, John, Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist, 2004 (see review)

Budd, Linda, Living With the Active Alert Child, 2003

Clark, Barbara, Growing Up Gifted: Developing the Potential of Children at Home and at School, 2001

Clarke, Jean Illsley, Connections: The Threads that Strengthen Families, 1999

Cohen, LeaNora M.and Erica Freydenberg, Coping for Capable Kids, 1996

Colangelo, Nicholas, Susan G. Assouline, Miraca U.M. Gross, A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students, 2004. This Templeton National Report is available free online at http://nationdeceived.org.

Davidson, Jan, Bob Davison, Laura Vanderkam, Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds, 2005

Delisle, Jim R., Judy Galbraith, James R. Delisle, When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs, 2001

Galbraith, Judy, You Know Your Child is Gifted When...: A Beginner's Guide to Life on the Bright Side, 2000

Goleman, Daniel, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ, 1997

Green, Ross, The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children, 2001

Greenspon, Thomas S., Freeing Our Families from Perfectionism, 2001

Halsted, Judith Wynn, Some of My Best Friends are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Pre-School to High School (2nd ed.), 2002

Heacox, Diane, Up from Underachievement: How Teachers, Students, and Parents Can Work Together to Promote Student Success, 1991 (see review)

Hoddeson, Lillian and Vicki Daitch, True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen, 2002 (see review)

Jago, Lucy, The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis, 2001 (see review)

Kerr, Barbara A. Kerr and Sanford J. Cohn, Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning, 2001

Kerr, Barbara, Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness, 1997 (rev.)

Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy, Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, Energetic, 1992

Neihart, Maureen, Psy.D., Sally M. Reis, Ph.D., Nancy M. Robinson, Ph.D. and Sidney M. Moon, Ph.D., The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know?, 2001 (see review)

Palladino, Lucy Jo, Ph.D., Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos: How to Help the Child Who is Bright, Bored and Having Problems in School, 1999 (see review)

Reddy, Maureen, Martha Roth, Amy Sheldon, editors, Mother Journeys: Feminists Write about Mothering, 1994 (see review)

Rimm, Sylvia, Ph.D., Sara Rimm-Kaufman, Ph.D., Ilonna Rimm, M.D., Ph.D., See Jane Win: The RIMM Report on How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Women, 2001 (see review)

Rogers, Karen B., Re-Forming Gifted Education: How Parents and Teachers Can Match the Program to the Child, 2001

Ruf, Deborah L., Ph.D., Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind, 2005 (see review)

Silverman, Linda Kreger, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner, 2002

Smutny, Joan F. and Jerry Flack, Stand Up for Your Gifted Child: How to Make the Most of Kids' Strengths at School and at Home, 2001

Strip, Carol Ann, Gretchen Hirsch, Carol A. Strip, Helping Gifted Children Soar: A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers, 2000

Walker, Sally Yanke, The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids, 2002

Webb, James T. and Arlene R. DeVries, Gifted Parent Groups: The SENG Model (2nd Edition), 2007

Webb, James T., Janet L. Gore, Edward R. Amend, and Arlene R. DeVries, A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children, 2007 (update of popular Guiding the Gifted Child: A Practical Source for Parents and Teachers, 1989)

Webb, James T., Edward R. Amend, Nadia E. Webb, Jean Goerss, Paul Beljan, and F. Richard Olenchak, Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger's, Depression, and Other Disorders, 2005

Webb, James T., Janet L. Gore, Frances A. Karnes, and Stephen McDaniel, Grandparents' Guide to Gifted Children, 2004

Winebrenner, Susan and Pamela Espeland, Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom, 2000 (rev. & upd.)