Books

A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Teens: Living with Intense and Creative Adolescents

(Great Potential Press, 2010)

A 2010 Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Recipient and 2010 National Indie Excellence Award finalist

Gifted teenagers require special understanding in order to thrive. Learn how to understand your adolescent’s intensity and excitability, how to nurture creativity and self-directed learning, how to offer support without taking control, and how to care for yourself as the parent of an intense and creative teen. This book helps parents to view the challenging years of middle school and high school not merely as college prep, but as a preparation for life. Read an Excerpt

The Smart Teen’s Guide to Living with Intensity: How to Get More Out of Life and Learning

(Great Potential Press, 2010)

A 2010 National Indie Excellence Award finalist

A book for all pre-teens and teens who love to learn, even if they don’t necessarily love school. Discover yourself as an intense and excitable learner, a creative learner, and a self-directed learner. Read about how to manage perfectionism and self-talk, how to understand your parents better, and how to take charge of your education, whether you go to public school, private school, or homeschool. Read an Excerpt

Creative Home Schooling: A Resource Guide for Smart Families
(Great Potential Press, 2002)

Named 2003 Glyph Best Education Book

Creative Home Schooling shows you how to give your child a gifted education at home. Children who are exceptionally bright, creative, curious and intense in their learning require a different understanding and approach to home education from many other children. Recognizing these differences does not mean you are being elitist. You are instead meeting your child’s needs. Read customer reviews for Creative Home Schooling.

The Homeschooling Option: How To Decide When It’s Right for Your Family
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

Should you homeschool? Do you want to?

Answering these questions requires self-reflection, family input and sometimes trial and error. The good news is that homeschooling is by nature a learn-as-you-go enterprise, and you aren’t expected to have all the answers before you start, or even to know how long you will homeschool. By allowing yourself to adapt to your child’s needs along the way, you can more easily decide if full-time homeschooling or part-time homeschooling is a good choice for your family. And who knows? You might find, as we did, that learning at home is the best possible intellectual, social and emotional education for your child.