Parenting Bright Children:

What’s the Same And What’s Different?

Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 7p.m.

DeKalb Public Library

309 Oak Street

Did you know that bright children share many characteristics in addition to being smart? For example, many:

✻ Dislike noisy places

✻ Reject most kinds of socks and want the tags cut out of clothes

✻ Create imaginary friends

✻ Move or fiddle with things constantly

✻ Daydream extensively

✻ Feel enormous empathy

✻ Only reluctantly learn to swim or to ride a bike or tie a shoe

✻ Worry about world peace and global climate change at a very young age

If you feel your child is bright, please join us for a round table discussion. We will discuss these and other characteristics of bright children, some of the challenges of raising them, gifted testing and identification, and different approaches to education. We

will also talk about the laws governing gifted education. Handouts of relevant materials will be available.

Our discussion will be lead by CGCC volunteer Newenka DuMont, the mother of two gifted teens. She is the founding president of the Gifted Education Cooperative, a member of the Illinois Association for Gifted Children (IAGC), where she has volunteered on

the advocacy and parent affiliates committees and orchestrated the first Please Don’t Leave Our Children Behind Day in Springfield, and the Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) Illinois State Liaison. Newenka has presented at IAGC conventions, as well as at local gifted parent groups around Illinois. She is a SENG certified parent group facilitator and has been leading groups for almost 10 years.

While this program is free, space is limited so please call or email Gretchen to reserve a seat: gretnate@aol.com or at 815-757-0617

Questions? Want to hear about other great programs? Contact Gretchen!

* * This program is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the DeKalb Public Library.  The library is not responsible for the information presented in this program.