How to develop a child’s talents? The author tells how to behave with gifted children, motivate them and not suppress them.
They can «hover in the clouds», but at the same time they grasp everything on the fly; they may seem lazy and withdrawn to others, but, having received a truly creative task, they instantly come to life and willingly undertake to solve it. They are not geeks, but they are certainly gifted, and in every elementary school there are about 10% of such children. The authors show extraordinary children as ordinary boys and girls who need the acceptance of peers and adults, suggest parents and teachers how to behave with them at home and at school and how to build harmonious relationships between these areas of life. Gifted children experience ordinary emotions and have the most ordinary childhood desires and needs. But, according to the authors of the book, the famous Dutch psychologist Franz Monks and journalist Irene Ypenburg, recognition of the very fact of their giftedness is a necessary thing: a rare teacher knows how to involve capable children in the educational process and satisfy their cognitive needs in time. Monks and Ypenburg warn against trying to impose accepted norms on such children, insisting on the need for an individualized learning plan so that every gifted child believes in himself and can fulfill his rich potential.
Kogito-Center, 132 p.