Smart Teens' Guide to Living with Intensity: How to Get More Out of Life and Learning
"This is an extraordinary discussion of the 'fine lines' that parents of gifted kids walk. Nuanced perspectives related to boundary-setting, parental self-reflection, giftedness as differentness, identity development, and 'drive' are particularly powerful and include realistic examples and suggestions."  --Jean Sunde Peterson, Ph.D., Professor, Purdue University, Author of Gifted at Risk: Poetic Portraits"The book I wish I'd had as a teen! With practical, insightful, and heartfelt advice, Rivero speaks directly to today's brightest teens about managing their intensities and becoming self-directed learners. I'm buying this book for my gifted students because its message of developing self-understanding, practicing joyful learning, and taking ownership of one's education is precisely the message our brightest learners can thrive on. It is their education, after all, not ours."   --Tamara Fisher, M.A., K-12 Gifted Education Specialist, President of Montana AGATE, co-author of Intelligent Life in the Classroom: Smart Kids and their Teachers, and gifted education blogger for Teacher Magazine