Building Bounce-Back Kids

In this article, the author talks about building resilience--that ability to push through hardship to success, to rebound from failure, and to "keep on keepin' on" when things seem impossible. The author assert that lots of gifted and talented kids need help building their resilience....

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Published inUnderstanding our gifted Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 26 - 29
Main Author Lloyd-Zannini, Lou
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Open Space Communications LLC 2011
Subjects
Academically Gifted
Conflict Resolution
Decision Making
Freedom
Guidelines
Humor
Leadership Training
Parent Role
Problem Solving
Resilience (Psychology)
Responsibility
Simulation
Skill Development
Teacher Role
Young Children
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Summary:In this article, the author talks about building resilience--that ability to push through hardship to success, to rebound from failure, and to "keep on keepin' on" when things seem impossible. The author assert that lots of gifted and talented kids need help building their resilience. In today's world, when striving for mediocrity can seem like too large a task to even consider, how "do" educators and parents "failure-proof" their kids? What can they do to assist them in building their resilience, so that when the going gets tough, they keep going, and when they fail at something, they see it as a new opportunity to succeed? How can educators help them to become bounce-back kids? The answer is not absurdly simple. The author stresses that failure proofing gifted and talented kids requires educators and parents to do three moderately simple but often difficult things: (1) They need to give their children appropriate amounts of freedom to try new things; (2) they need to help the children be responsible for their choices and actions; and (3) when they fail, educators and parents need to help them learn to reframe failure. The author offers ten strategies to help failure-proof the kids, and to build them up as bounce-back kids in a world which is more than satisfied to settle for "no way."
ISSN:1040-1350