Peak Performance for Smart Kids Strategies and Tips for Ensuring School Success

Name: Peak Performance for Smart Kids Strategies and Tips for Ensuring School Success
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ISBN: 9781593633103

ISBN-10: 1593633106

ISBN-13: 9781593633103

Edition: 2008

Authors: Maureen Neihart

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"Peak Performance for Smart Kids" provides success strategies, activities, tools, real-life examples, and checklists for parents to employ to help their kids achieve to 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…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Prufrock Press
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.88" wide x 9.15" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword



What Do Coaches, Athletes, and Performing Artists Know That We Don't?



Learning to Tolerate Stress and Anxiety



Out of the Comfort Zone: Moving Your Children to Their Edge of Competence



Getting SMARTer About Goal Setting



Every Dream Begins With a Picture: Improving Performance With Mental Rehearsal



In the Zone: Using Mood Management to Improve Achievement



Learning Hope and Optimism



Reconciling the Need to Belong With the Need to Achieve



The Most Important Thing


Answer Key


References


Selected Research on Peak Performance


About the Author