Eileen Kennedy-Moore - Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Childs True Potential

More Praise for Smart Parenting for Smart Kids

Having had the experience of raising a smart, perfectionistic child myself, this book is a literal godsend. Packed with familiar anecdotes and valuable advice, parents will find great wisdom in its pages.

Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The Leader in Me

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids is a fresh parenting book filled with vignettes and strategies for raising smart kids to become healthy, happy, and contributing adults. It shines light on the mindset needed to counter the effects on our children of our high-stakes culture and education system.

Vicki Abeles, producer and codirector, Race to Nowhere

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids is a really important book for parents who are immersed in the wave of pressure parenting. The authors have done parents a favor by exposing the flaws in the argument that our kids must be pushed ever harder to succeed. This book helps parents see how to encourage their children to develop as whole people with feelings, ideas, and the ability to cope with the occasional disappointment too.

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, PhD, professor, University of Delaware; author, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards and A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool

This book offers warm, sensible, and practical ways that parents can help their children build positive relationships and develop effective coping skills. The authors make parents aware of the fine line between encouragement and over-involvement. I highly recommend it.

Nancy Samalin, MS, parent educator and best-selling author, Loving Without Spoiling

If you wish to be a smart parent, get this book and absorb its messages about how to help your children learn from experience, grow despite setbacks, work well with those around them, and find their own motivation and joy.

Maurice J. Elias, PhD, director, Clinical Training, Psychology Department, Rutgers University; coauthor, Emotionally Intelligent Parenting

This book is a treatsmart guidance for parents of bright children in a stressed-out world! Kennedy-Moore and Lowenthal engage you with their comfortable writing style, psychological expertise, compelling examples of childrens core challenges, and sound parenting strategies. I recommend it for parents who want to help their children achieve and thrive, without pressure.

Carol D. Goodheart, EdD, 2010 president, American Psychological Association

Parents will identify their children in the case studies presented by the authors and immediately find practical strategies for guiding them with their intellectual and social-emotional needs.

Sylvia Rimm, PhD, author, How to Parent So Children Will Learn

Kennedy-Moore and Lowenthal show us how to encourage healthy self-esteem and coping in our children. In a clear manner, they translate solid strategies into easy-to-understand advice for parents to help kids stay productive and happy. Wish my parents had this when I was growing up.

Jed Baker, PhD, author, No More Meltdowns

This warm and wise book shows parents how to nurture the social and emotional skills that all children need to succeed. Its filled with practical strategies parents can use to help children discover and develop their true potential.

Michele Borba, PhD, author, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions

Copyright 2011 by Eileen Kennedy-Moore and Mark S. Lowenthal. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kennedy-Moore, Eileen.

Smart parenting for smart kids : nurturing your childs true potential / Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Mark S. Lowenthal.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-64005-0 (pbk.); ISBN 978-0-470-93999-4 (ebk); 978-0-470-94000-6 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-00289-6 (ebk)

1. Gifted children. 2. Parents of gifted children. I. Lowenthal, Mark S., date. II. Title.

HQ773.5.K467 2011

649'.155dc22

2010043005

This book is lovingly dedicated to our spouses and partners on our parenting journey, Tony Moore and Sandy Voremberg