Book chapter
Mommy, I'm Bored
Serving Gifted Students in Rural Settings, pp.289-316
Prufrock Press
2015
DOI: 10.4324/9781003237938-18
Abstract
Parents and family members play a pivotal role in a child’s talent development. The family communicates values and beliefs from generation to generation, including how gifted children think about the following: work and achievement; education, money, status, and social standing; creativity and curiosity; finding meaning in careers and in recreation; community, volunteerism, and service to others; and locus of control, destiny, and perseverance. The concept of career as a value may be unique in these values because gifted students face difficult choices of staying and serving the community or leaving the community for other pursuits. Parents may be overwhelmed by persistent questions asked by children who display divergent thinking and whose communication style may come across as argumentative, defiant, or questioning of authority. The gifted label influences the parent/child system and the sibling system.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mommy, I'm Bored
- Creators
- Dana GriffinSusannah M. Wood
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Serving Gifted Students in Rural Settings, pp.289-316
- Publisher
- Prufrock Press; Waco, Texas
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003237938-18
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2015
- Academic Unit
- Counselor Education
- Record Identifier
- 9984528097102771
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