Originally Posted by TripleB
I've ordered three books in hopes of learning as much as I possibly can:
a) Raising a Gifted Child by Carol Fertig,
b) Smart Parenting for Smart Kids by Eileen Kenedy-Moore, and
c) Guiding the Gifted Child by James T. Webb.

What other books or resources would you recommend to help me?


- I highly recommend "Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults" by Susan Daniels (Editor), Michael M. Piechowski (Editor): http://www.amazon.com/Living-With-Intensity-Understanding-Excitability/dp/0910707898

- math: "Great Source Math to Know" and/or other books in this series: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Source-Math-Know-Mathematics/dp/0669535966

- science: "The New Way Things Work" by David Macaulay: http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473

- human biology: "The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body" by David Macaulay (caution: there is one picture on human reproduction at the end you need to check first): http://www.amazon.com/Way-We-Work-G...13315352&sr=1-1&keywords=the+way+we+work .

In general, make more advanced resources available to him and see what "clicks" with him.

I also always recommend Stanford EPGY Math K-7 (Open Enrollment) and AOPS Prealgebra books.

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coming up with 'out of the box' solutions to various things we discuss, and him going about solving Math problems similar to myself (ie: 4 x 96 would be 4 x 100 minus 4 x 4)

AOPS is great with this kind of problems. You can find the pretest for AOPS Prealgebra here: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/viewitem.php?item=prealgebra .

ETA: There are also AOPS Beast Academy math books for younger readers, but these are new and we have not used them: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/viewitem.php?item=beast:3A-Guide .