IF OUR CHILD IS SO SMART, WHY AREN’T

OUR LIVES EASIER?

Dr. Linda Silverman, Ph.D.

Director of the Gifted Development Center in Denver, Colo.

Wednesday, Feb. 16, 7 p.m.

Greater Tacoma Convention &

Trade Center, Commerce Room

1500 Broadway, Tacoma, WA

$10 suggested donation

Register to:

halleyg@seabury.org

Limited number of walk-up spots

available: register early to

guarantee your place.

Gifted children are expensive and time-consuming.  They usually need less sleep

than you do, ask more questions than you can answer, want 100 percent of your

attention 24 hours a day, have obsessive hobbies, react intensely to everything,

endlessly long for a best friend who understands them completely, hold perfec-

tionistic standards for themselves and you, want to know the meaning of life when

other children only want to know how to whistle, and keep their bedrooms in a

condition you can never show company.

In order to be the perfect parent, you need unlimited funds, unlimited patience,

an encyclopedic mind, and someone to sleep for you. In this session, we will be

discussing such issues as coping with the characteristics of giftedness; siblings and

birth order; understanding introversion; and keys to successful parenting. You will

receive an owner’s manual, “Guidelines for Parents of the Gifted,” which contains

suggestions for harmonious family life.

There will be a question and answer period, but I don’t have all the answers.

Trust yourself!  No one knows your child better than you do.

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