Want Your Child to be an Academic Star? New Book Offers 98 Fail-proof Recipes for Raising a Gifted Child
It takes the partnership of parents and teachers to produce a high achieving student. New book offers suggestions, collected from parents of gifted children around the world, on how to create a productive learning environment.
Boston, MA (PRWEB) July 24, 2005
As author Dr. James Reed Campbell states in the introduction of his book, Raising Your Child to Be Gifted, nurture outweighs nature when it comes to shaping a childÂ’s learning habits. Moving beyond the usual genetic explanations for giftedness, he presents powerful evidence from parents of gifted children, who believe their involvement--using very specific methods of working with and nurturing their child-- played a key role in developing their childÂ’s academic aptitude in school.
These “recipes” for success, as Dr. Campbell refers to them, were collected from the parents of gifted children from the US, Japan, Greece, and China--nations known for putting a high premium on education.
“When I first started my research, I, too, thought these children were gifted strictly because of innate ability,” Dr. Campbell said. “Instead I learned that there is a universal approach to producing academic excellence in children--and it comes from the parent--not special genes or the school system.”
That approach is the bulk of Raising Your Child to be Gifted. There are 98 applicable and easy-to-follow recipes in the book for working with children and creating an atmosphere where learning becomes central.
The final chapter addresses the parent/teacher partnership, which according to Dr. Campbell, is a crucial component in producing a gifted child.
James Reed Campbell, Ph. D is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of gifted and talented children. His work has appeared in
Many books and articles, and in over 100 research and grant reports. He currently teaches at St. JohnÂ’s University in New York.
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