Peak Performance for Smart Kids

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.
Educational Resource

Maureen Neihart, Psy.D., a leading authority on the talent development in children, is a licensed child psychologist with more than 25 years of experience working with talented young people and their families. A former teacher and school counselor, she now is an internationally recognized leader on the psychological aspects of talent development, addressing between 20,000 and 40,000 people each year in her many talks and workshops throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America.

Foreword Chapter 1 What Do Coaches, Athletes, and Performing Artists Know That We Don't? Chapter 2 Learning to Tolerate Stress and Anxiety Chapter 3 Out of the Comfort Zone: Moving Your Children to Their Edge of Competence Chapter 4 Getting SMARTer About Goal Setting Chapter 5 Every Dream Begins With a Picture: Improving Performance With Mental Rehearsal Chapter 6 In the Zone: Using Mood Management to Improve Achievement Chapter 7 Learning Hope and Optimism Chapter 8 Reconciling the Need to Belong With the Need to Achieve Chapter 9 The Most Important Thing Answer Key References Selected Research on Peak Performance About the Author