Dr. joanne Foster, Author

Fostering Kids’ Success

Resources

Welcome to the Resources page curated by Dr. Joanne Foster. Here, she shares insights and knowledge on nurturing children—across the learning spectrum, and across domains, ages, and developmental stages. She offers information and practical tips for parents and educators, including a wealth of articles wherein she focuses on ways to encourage and support intelligence, creativity, productivity, and more. This page is a compendium of material to help families foster kids’ success, and strengthen their well-being.

Creativity

Nurturing Creativity

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A Few Good Links on Nurturing Creativity

What Kills Creativity in Kids?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/what_kills_creativity_in_kids

Three Ways to Support Kids’ Intelligence and Creativity: What to Strive for When Life’s a Whirlwind
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/3_ways_to_support_kids_intelligence_and_creativity_what_to_strive_for_when

Differentiated Learning and Creativity Intertwined
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/differentiated-learning-and-creativity-intertwined

Sensible Ways to Increase Children’s Intelligence AND Creativity
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/sensible-ways-to-encourage-childrens-intelligence-and-creativity

Can Creativity Help Kids Get Through Challenge?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/can_creativity_help_kids_get_through_challenge

Creative Opportunities for Families

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A Few Good Links on Creative Opportunities for Families

Curiosity in Children
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/curiosity-in-children/

Taking a Walk on the Bright Side
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/taking-a-walk-on-the-bright-side

Creative Expression: Are Some Kids Missing Out?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/creative-expression-are-some-kids-missing-out

Creativity and Special Needs Learners
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/creativity_and_special_needs_learners

What Do Productivity and Creativity Have in Common?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/what_do_productivity_and_creativity_have_in_common

Learning and Development

Intelligence Building: Learning Here, There, and Everywhere

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A Few Good Links on Intelligence Building

Simple Pleasures
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/simple-pleasures

Young Children and Game-Playing: Ten Suggestions for Parents and Care-Givers
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/young_children_and_game_playing_ten_suggestions_for_parents_and_care_givers

In Appreciation of Teachers
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/in-appreciation-of-teachers

Setting Parental Expectations
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/setting-parental-expectations

The Best Teachers: What Do Parents Need to Know?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/the_best_teachers_what_do_parents_need_to_know

Stoicism, Leadership, and Parenting
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/stoicism-leadership-and-parenting

Gifted Learning

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A Few Good Links on Gifted Learning

Requisites for Learning
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/requisites-for-learning-the-5-rs

Ambitious, Purposeful Kids in an Increasingly Chaotic World
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/ambitious-purposeful-kids-in-an-increasingly-chaotic-world

Creating a Culture Where It’s Cool to Be Smart
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/creating_a_culture_where_its_cool_to_be_smart

Dumbing Down: Why? What Are the Signs? What Can Parents Do?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/dumbing_down_why_what_are_the_signs_what_can_parents_do

Motivation and Productivity

Procrastination: Tips for Parents and Kids

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A Few Good Links on Procrastination

Are Procrastinators Creative?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/are_procrastinators_creative

Children’s Tasks: What to AIM For
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/childrens_tasks_what_to_aim_for

Helping Kids Overcome Procrastination: Why Wait?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/helping_kids_overcome_procrastination_why_wait

Busting Procrastination
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/busting-procrastination-1

How to Help Kid Get on Track—and Stay There: Eight Tips Revealed!
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/how_to_help_kids_get_on_trackand_stay_there_eight_tips_revealed

Productivity and Kids: What Do Parents Need to Know?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/productivity_and_kids_what_do_parents_need_to_know

Kids Who CAN But WON’T: What Can Parents Do?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/kids_who_can_but_wont_what_can_parents_do1

Helping Kids Advance Step-By-Step …

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A Few Good Links on Helping Kids Advance

“AHA!” Moments
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/aha_moments

Encouraging Purposeful Pursuits
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/encouraging-purposeful-pursuits

Kids Confused? Help Them Go from Perplexity to Purpose
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/kids_confused_help_them_go_from_perplexity_to_purpose

From Disappointment to Joy
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/from-disappointment-to-joy

BIG Picture Thinking
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/big_picture_thinking

Creating Forward Momentum
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/creating_forward_momentum

What’s Your Child’s Potential? (And Does It Really Matter?)
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/whats_your_childs_potential_and_does_it_really_matter

Children’s Well-Being

Meeting Challenges in Today’s World

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A Few Good Links on Meeting Challenges

ABCs of Cultivating a Love of Learning—For Children
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/abcs-of-cultivating-a-love-of-learning-for-children/

Finding the Joy
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/finding-the-joy

Embracing Uncertainty
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/embracing-uncertainty

Help Children Embrace New Beginnings
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/help-children-embrace-new-beginnings-2

Reflective and Thought-Provoking Pieces

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A Few Good Links to Reflective and Thought-Provoking Pieces

Let’s Be Honest
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/lets-be-honest

Children’s Learning: Questions for Reflection
https://www.firsttimeparentmagazine.com/childrens-learning-questions-for-reflection

Reading to Kids: Ten Reasons it Matters, Ten Ways to Do It (By Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/going-beyond-intelligence/201411/reading-kids-ten-reasons-it-matters-ten-ways-do-it-0

Sharp Minds: Financiers and Creators
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/sharp-minds-financiers-and-creators

Cursive Writing: A Just or Lost Cause?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/cursive-writing-a-lost-or-just-cause

Too Invested in Your Child’s Activities and Performance?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/too_invested_in_your_childs_activities_and_performance

Interviews with Interesting People

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A Few Good Links to Interviews with Interesting People

Challenges of Creativity: A Second Interview with Artist Rina Gottesman
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/challenges_of_creativity

Crafts and Creativity: Interview with Hope Saul
https://www.creativitypost.com/conversations/crafts-and-creativity

Appreciating Music as a Foundational Aspect of Creativity: Interview with Modern Composer Hanne Deneire
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/appreciating_music_as_a_foundational_aspect_of_creativity

Some of My Favourite Articles

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A Few Good Links to Some of My Favourite Articles:

An Analogy about the Power of Support: The Evident, the Foundational, and the Imagined…
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/an_analogy_about_the_power_of_support_the_evident_the_foundational_and_the

The Power of Gratitude
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/the_power_of_gratitude

How Children Learn: Fit, Fairness, and Flexibility
https://www.rootsofaction.com/how-children-learn/

What If Kids Avoid or Struggle with Creativity?
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/what_if_kids_avoid_or_struggle_with_creativity

Through the Lives of Others…. Inspiring Children’s Creativity and Productivity
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/through_the_lives_of_others_inspiring_childrens_creativity_and_productivity

Explaining Creativity to Kids
https://www.creativitypost.com/education/explaining_creativity_to_kids

Podcasts On Hot-Button Topics

Women bring something different: The intense world of gifted women

Podcasts

Dr. Foster highlights the challenges of labeling kids with ‘potential.’ She also shares practical tips from her books on procrastination, guiding parents to help their gifted children balance their educational journeys with resilience and success.

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A Few Good Links to Podcasts

Co-Creating a Creative Vibe: A 3-part Series (for Parents and Kids) – In Conversation with Stephen Barkley

Fostering Creativity – Podcast for World Unity Week

The ABCs of Raising Smarter Kids – Podcast with MomEnough

Motivating Gifted Learners: Extending the Essentials – An interview with Molly Isaacs-McLeod for the New Mexico Association for the Gifted Conference

Additional Book Chapters by Dr. Joanne Foster

Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent

Encyclopedia of Giftedness Published by Sage Knowledge Publications
https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/giftedness
Extracurricular Activities (Volume 1:343-345); Gifted Education in Canada (co-authored with Marion Porath and Elizabeth Smythe, Volume 1:113-116); Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation (Volume 1:490-491); Parental Attitudes (Volume 2:668-670); Teacher Training (Volume 2:884-887); Thinking Skills (Volume 2:898-899)

Success Strategies for Parenting Gifted Kids

Expert Advice from by The National Association for Gifted Children

Published by Routledge
https://www.amazon.com/Success-Strategies-Parenting-Gifted-Kids/dp/1618219030/
Chapter One (co-authored with Dona Matthews), entitled “Intelligence, IQ, Tests, and Assessments: What Do Parents Need to Know?” (This chapter can be read almost in full by clicking on the “Read Sample” feature on the Amazon product page.)