ABSTRACT

Peak Performance for Smart Kids provides success strategies, activities, tools, real-life examples, and checklists for parents to employ to help their kids to achieve their highest potential. Even the most talented child will not succeed if he or she has not developed the mental, psychological, and emotional skills to face the heavy demands of high performance. Maureen Neihart, a psychologist and leading authority on talent development in children, examines seven mental habits of successful kids, providing practical approaches for developing them in talented children of all ages in this easy-to-read guide for parents and teachers.

By working with parents to complete the activities included in this book, high-ability kids will learn to manage stress and anxiety, set and achieve goals, use mental rehearsal to improve performance, manage their moods and emotions, practice optimistic thinking, and resolve their frustrations of needing to belong while needing to achieve. With its research-based strategies and unique approach to maximizing potential, this is a book from which every parent of smart kids can benefit!

Educational Resource

chapter 2|25 pages

Learning to Tolerate Stress and Anxiety

chapter 3|20 pages

Out of the Comfort Zone

Moving Your Children to Their Edge of Competence

chapter 4|20 pages

Getting SMARTer About Goal Setting

chapter 5|18 pages

Every Dream Begins With a Picture

Improving Performance With Mental Rehearsal

chapter 6|19 pages

In the Zone

Using Mood Management to Improve Achievement

chapter 7|22 pages

Learning Hope and Optimism

chapter 9|16 pages

The Most Important Thing