Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World : Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Ho Me and at School

Empowering advice for parents of bright, quirky, socially awkward kids—an educator’s clarion call to better understand, appreciate, and nurture our “left-brainers” Does your child: • Have impressive intellectual abilities but seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with other children? • Have deep, all-absorbing interests or seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of certain subjects? • Bring home mediocre report cards, or seem disengaged at school, despite his or her obvious intelligence? If you answered “yes” to these questions, this book is for you. Author Katharine Beals uses the term “left-brain” to describe a type of child whose talents and inclinations lean heavily toward the logical, linear, analytical, and introverted side of the human psyche, as opposed to the “right brain,” a term often associated with our emotional, holistic, intuitive, and extroverted side. Drawing on her research and interviews with parents and children, Beals helps parents to discover if they are raising a left-brain child, and she offers practical strategies for nurturing and supporting this type of child at school and at home. Beals also advises parents in how best to advocate for their children in today’s schools, which can be baffled by and unsupportive of left-brain learning styles. Empowering advice for parents of bright, quirky, socially awkward kidsan educators clarion call to better understand, appreciate, and nurture our left-brainers #160; Does your child: #160;Have impressive intellectual abilities but seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with other children? #160;Have deep, all-absorbing interests or seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of certain subjects? #160;Bring home mediocre report cards, or seem disengaged at school, despite his or her obvious intelligence? If you answered yes to these questions, this book is for you. Author Katharine#160;Beals#160;uses the term left-brain to describe a type of child whose talents and inclinations lean heavily toward the logical, linear,#160;analytical, and introverted side of the human psyche, as opposed to the right brain, a term often associated with our emotional, holistic, intuitive, and extroverted side. Drawing on her research and interviews with parents and children,#160;Beals#160;helps parents to discover if they are raising a left-brain child, and she offers practical strategies for nurturing and supporting this type of child at school and at home.#160;Beals#160;also advises parents in how best to advocate for their children in todays schools, which can be baffled by and#160;unsupportive#160;of left-brain learning styles

Does your child:

   • Have impressive intellectual abilities but seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with other children?
   • Have deep, all-absorbing interests or seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of certain subjects?
   • Bring home mediocre report cards, or seem disengaged at school, despite his or her obvious intelligence?

If you answered “yes” to these questions, this book is for you. Author Katharine Beals uses the term “left-brain” to describe a type of child whose talents and inclinations lean heavily toward the logical, linear, analytical, and introverted side of the human psyche, as opposed to the “right brain,” a term often associated with our emotional, holistic, intuitive, and extroverted side.

Drawing on her research and interviews with parents and children, Beals helps parents to discover if they are raising a left-brain child, and she offers practical strategies for nurturing and supporting this type of child at school and at home. Beals also advises parents in how best to advocate for their children in today’s schools, which can be baffled by and unsupportive of left-brain learning styles.

Adrift in today's classroom : the unsocial child at school Playdates, friends, and family life : the unsocial child at home Hindered by reform math and other trends in K-12 education : the analytic child at school All-absorbing interests and other quirks : the analytic child at home Helping our most extreme left-brainers : understanding and supporting the mildly autistic child How to change right-brain attitudes : useful talking points. Drawing on her research and interviews with parents and children, the author offers a new understanding of left-brain kids--those whose talents and inclinations lean heavily toward the logical, linear, analytical, and introverted side of the human psyche--and provides practical strategies for nurturing and supporting them, both at school and at home