Join our email list to receive new articles and keep abreast of events! Getting Involved 2006 Conference Continuing Education Parents ... Grants Parenting the Gifted Title: Tips for parents of intense children Citation: Reprinted with permission from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development Author: Sharon Lind Online since: November 2003 Download a printer-friendly version (PDF) Below are some specific strategies for helping gifted children and adults to recognize, cope with, cherish and take advantage of their emotional intensity. - Jointly discuss the positive outcomes of being emotionally intensei.e. sensitive to others, caring, loyal, have strong feelings Cherish and celebrate diversity and individual differences Think about how these traits effect a person's perception of the world through a different, perhaps kaleidoscopic, lens Accept the individual as is including "bizarre" descriptions and expressions of feelings and alternative ways of viewing and doing things Learn listening and responding skills to help the intense people deal with and respond to their feelings Develop a feeling vocabulary including a continuum of feeling words Teach emotionally intense people to share their feelings with others when they are ready verbally, through movement, art, journaling, music, whatever
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