Bringing Out the Best: A Guide for Parents of Young Gifted Children [Paperback]

Jacqulyn Saunders (Author), Pamela Espeland (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing; Rev Upd edition (February 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 091579330X
• ISBN-13: 978-0915793303
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #784,291 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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189 of 192 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding introduction to giftedness for parents, March 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bringing Out the Best: A Guide for Parents of Young Gifted Children (Paperback)

"Bringing Out the Best" is one of a select few "must-read" boks for parents of gifted children. Along with the "Survival Guide" series, this book covers the basics in identifying, supporting, and advocating for gifted/talented (GT) children, especially young GTs. It's likely to be most useful for parents of moderately or highly gifted children, although the special challenges of profound and exceptional giftedness are discussed as well. This book has a good mix of research-based conclusions and anecdotal stories of how children, parents, educators and society at large deal with giftedness. It's written in a lively style, with the necessary jargon clearly explained so parents can talk with educators in their language. There's lots of good, solid information in the book, but its best feature is the extensive resource/further reading list at the end of each chapter. More than a dry bibliography, Saunders introduces each reference and describes the reasons it was selected for the list.

120 of 123 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bringing Out The Best, June 22, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Bringing Out the Best: A Guide for Parents of Young Gifted Children (Paperback)

A lot of what I read about this book was misleading to include previous customer comments. This book is geared for parents with very young children, ie. baby's & toddlers. I bought this book mainly because of the section titled: Coping With The Schools. This is very misleading. As it turns out, this section is on how to choose a Preschool & various Caregivers activies they can do with the child. However, in this book's defense there's a section on "How To Be Your Child's Advocate In The School System" but again, this is geared mainly for the very young child.

If you have a toddler or a child younger than the age of 5 then this book is loaded with good developmental information, interactive activities between parent and child, and what toys to buy for this young child. If you have a child over the age of 5, this book will not be useful.

In addition, the first copyright of this book is 1986 & there was an update in 1991. So to advertised as "Revised and updated" is also misleading. It's definitely time for another update not to mention the graphics are old & outdated.

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, October 25, 2000

By 

John Reenan (Dallas, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bringing Out the Best: A Guide for Parents of Young Gifted Children (Paperback)

Not the typical alarmist book about our precious kids not having enough Latin/French/German by the time they're two years old. Recognizes giftedness as an opportunity for success academically as well as an opportunity to live a rich life, and offers practical, real-world advice about how to nurture and feed the "hungry mind" personality.