The Northwest Gifted Child Association and SENG (Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted) are hosting a free presentation: Eleven Key Parenting Issues with Dr. James Webb in the Lake Washington School District this summer. Dr. Webb, author of A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children and other books, will be in town preparing for next year’s SENG Annual Symposium in Seattle in July 2011.
Eleven Key Parenting Issues Presented by Dr. James Webb Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:00pm – 9:00pm Redmond High School Performing Arts Center 17272 N.E. 104th Avenue, RedmondThis is a FREE EVENT — there is no RSVP required!!
Eleven issues are common concerns for parents of gifted children — from tots to teens:
- Communication and relationships
- Motivation and underachievement
- Discipline, power struggles, self-management
- Intensity, stress and perfectionism
- Acquaintances, friends and peers
- Siblings and only children
- Values, traditions and uniqueness
- Idealism, unhappiness, and depression
- Complexities of modern parenting
- Misdiagnosis
- Finding a good educational fit
Information will be given about each, along with how four major factors – range of ability, asynchronous development, over-excitability, and thinking styles — influence these issues.
James T. Webb, Ph.D. has been recognized as one of the 25 most influential psychologists in gifted education. In 1981, he established SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of Gifted), a national non-profit organization with programs that support gifted individuals and the parents, educators and health professionals that support them. He is the lead author of five books including A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children and Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults. This event is sponsored by the Northwest Gifted Child Association and SENG (Social & Emotional Needs of the Gifted), and is hosted by the Lake Washington School District and the Gifted Education Advisory Council (GEAC).