Dealing intelligently with intelligent children

Dealing intelligently with intelligent children

this is the book title of the guide for parents, teachers and educators of gifted children.

A review by Rüdiger Bendel

The book was published in 2015 by the Info3 publishing house in Brüll & Heisterkamp KG and was written by Hagen Seibt and Christa Rüssmann-Stöhr, two experts in the field of psychology.

It took me a good 2 months to work through the book. However, this is by no means due to the linguistic structure, because to say the least it is very goal-oriented and still nice and relaxed.

It is more due to the abundance of content that kept pausing me as a gifted person (IQ 149). To me, scenes of everyday life that the authors portray seem all too familiar, because they show that giftedness, talent, and some genius are often more difficult than simplifying life. You know particularly well how to consider the connection between IQ and EQ (emotional intelligence) separately, and also to highlight the similarities.

I particularly like the honesty in the work of the two. You can literally feel how much you have dealt with the people affected and can fall back on a large pool of therapeutic sessions and counseling.

The result is a real guide that not only appeals to the specialist audience in the educational and psychological field, but also – and here in particular – addresses itself the parents gifted children.

If the question is first clarified as to what a talented person is and how this can be determined, one then specifically follows in individual chapters how to deal with this talent.

For example, which framework helps the gifted, as well as the parents themselves in everyday life (!): Order, structure, discipline, rules, motivation, relationship to peers, siblings etc.

In addition, gender-differentiated observations are given in Chapter 14: Difference between girls and boys.

From Chapter 15, problem areas are also discussed: problems of parents in dealing with the Child, uncertainties regarding the type and scope of funding, problems with crawling, toddling and school age. Also mobbing , AD (H) S and asynchrony are addressed in detail.

As in almost all chapters, examples, factual reports, descriptive tables, checklists and diagrams help.

This always gives the impression that neither parents, educators and certainly not the highly gifted and intelligent children are on the margins of society alone, but rather that it is a “normal” phenomenon that there are intelligent children, each in their own way and Way is individual and can and must be individually promoted.

Thanks to the immense research results and psychological progress, thank God we are now able to not only recognize talents, but also to promote them in an optimal way in cooperation with educators, teachers, psychologists and parents.

Therefore, the last big chapter is devoted to talent management on almost 60 pages.

The book is refreshingly relaxed, simple and vividly written, convinces with lots of background information, tests and intelligent, funny illustrations that also loosen up. This way, the non-fiction and specialist book becomes a well-founded guide, as the authors wanted it and already write at the beginning: “… precisely because it is not a scientifically oriented book but results from the experience of experts – namely the parents – it is wonderful as Understanding help for self-help … ”

Reference:

Info3 publishing house, 266 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-3-95779-022-4, € 22.00

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