Survival Guide for Gifted Kids

Award-winning author and publisher Judy Galbraith, M.A., has a master’s degree in guidance and counseling of the gifted. A former classroom teacher, she has worked with and taught gifted children and teens, their parents, and their teachers for many years.In 1983 she started Free Spirit Publishing, which specializes in Self-Help for Kids® and Self-Help for Teens® books and other learning resources.Judy is the author or coauthor of several books, including the perennially popular The Gifted Teen Survival Guide, The Survival Guide for Gifted Kids, When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All the Answers, and You Know Your Child Is Gifted When . . . She has appeared on Oprah and has been featured in Family Circle and Family Life, as well as numerous other magazines, newspapers, and broadcast and online media.Judy served for ten years on the Board of Directors of Search Institute, a nonprofit research organization dedicated to advancing the well-being of children and adolescents. From 2007–2010, she was a member of Minnesota 4-H Foundation Board of Trustees. In 1996, Judy received the E. Paul Torrance Creativity Award; in 2004, she was named the Midwest Publisher of the Year; in 2006, she was Honored for Excellence in Independent Publishing by Independent Publisher Book Awards; in 2011, she received the California Association for the Gifted (CAG) Ruth A. Martinson Award for significant contribution to gifted education; in 2012, she was given the Friend of the Gifted Award by the Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented for her sustained advocacy on behalf of gifted children; and in 2015, she received the NAGC Annemarie Roeper Global Awareness Award.A popular speaker on the social and emotional needs of gifted students, Judy is available to conduct professional development workshops and to give conference keynotes. She is also available for classroom visits via Skype. Judy lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Welcome to The Survival Guide for Gifted KidsAbout This Book5 Things GTs Need to SucceedChapter 1: What It Means to Be Gifted4 Fast Facts About GTG v. TThe Many Sides of IntelligenceWhiz Quiz: What Are Your Strong Smarts?MythbustersChapter 2: Life as a Gifted Kid: What’s It Really Like?8 Great Gripes of GT Kids8 Big Benefits of Being GTWhen Did You Know?Too Many LabelsChapter 3: YMIGT?Meet Your GT BrainNature & NurtureWill I Always Be GT?What If I Don’t Want to Be GT—Can I Change?Chapter 4: GT Programs: What Works, What Doesn’t, & What You Can Do About ItWhat Is a GT Program?Who Gets In?Whiz Quiz: 20 Questions to Identify a GTWho Might Get Left Out?How’s Your Program?What If There’s No GT Program?Chapter 5: When School Bores You Out of Your Brain8 Great Ways to Make Regular School More CoolFind Other GTs & Take Action!What If You Hit a Roadblock?Chapter 6: Perfectionism & Other Pains in the BrainThe Perfection Infection (& Cure)Whiz Quiz: Are You a Perfectionist?What’s the Big Deal About Self-Esteem?The Great (or Not-So-Great) Gender GapWhat to Do When You’re Freakishly Frantic or Down in the DumpsChapter 7: Social SmartsWhat Are Friends & Where Do You Find Them?Friendship Fiascos & FixesThe Trouble with Teasing & How to CopeWhat If the Teasing Becomes Bullying?Chapter 8: Family Frustrations, Family FunGreat ExpectationsWhen You’re So Busy You Can’t See StraightSiblings: Pests or Pals?Chapter 9: Great Brain PowerWhiz Quiz: Brain Boost or Brain Drain?Witty Web SitesBrainy BooksVexing Video GamesChapter 10: Freedom to Be GTKnow Your RightsGet Your RightsA Few Final WordsGT ResourcesWeb SitesContests & CompetitionsGT SurveySources for GT FactsIndexAbout the Author