A review by roseleaf24
Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings by Christine Fonseca

4.0

The best part of this book is knowing that the emotional intensity comes with giftedness and knowing I am not alone in dealing with it. Knowing she is not alone in feeling the big feelings has been very helpful to my daughter as well. Much of the advice is basic parenting advice with an eye towards how it is helpful to gifted children, but it was a good reminder. The reframing of when to just let her calm down and not focus on stopping the behaviors was really helpful, as I've internalized a lot of judgement about how she should be behaving. I skipped most of the analyses of the disastrous conversations, as I found them too uncomfortable, but the examples of positive ways to work through these issues were helpful.