The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Proven Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

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The difference between saying "I am lonely" and "I feel lonely right now," allows them to understand the difference between a temporary state and a permanent trait. If our children argue or complain about something someone said to them, we can ask them to explore the other person's perspective. I actually won a copy of this book from Kate Berger of The Expat Kids Club years ago and I am so happy to finally read the contents.

Our children's experiences from birth help to constantly rewire their brains over the years so that the different areas of the brain can connect more easily and constructively. Complete with candid parenting stories and playful illustrations that bring the authors’ suggestions to life, No-Drama Discipline shows you how to work with your child’s developing mind, peacefully resolve conflicts, and inspire happiness and strengthen resilience in everyone in the family.I also liked that Siegel didn't make me feel that these are things that we need to be working on with our children ad nauseum.

If tension is building, it may help to engage the upstairs brain instead of trying to halt the rage brewing in the downstairs brain. So far all we’ve got is clever packaging and some fun analogies for pretty standard knowledge regarding keeping kids calm. harmonious flow between the[] two extremes,” which in turn will minimize tantrums and other results of “dis-integration. The first chapter is a bit obsolete - does not bring much value - only establishes the authority of the authors and sets expectations/promises about the book.I liked this book and appreciated the clear explanations of some brain science concepts (though I don't know whether it is all strictly accurate - for example, I keep hearing that the "left brain, right brain" thing is somewhat of a fiction). For example, the "reptilian" part of the brain makes split-second survival choices, and the 'mammalian' part is more concerned with relationships.

I picked the most obvious of the examples, but suffice to say that the others offer some really good, solid, practices that would go a long way to make parenting a truly mindfulness-based experience.Halbuki "zaman" veya "nde" şeklinde bir önceki kelimeye de bağlanabilir, daha rafine bir okuma deneyimi yaratılabilirdi. The kinds of things we're talking about here are simple strategies to utilize daily experience to help integrate the right and left hemispheres of the brain, the upper and lower structures of the brain, memory, the various aspects of personality and self and other. I also was pleasantly surprised to find that some of the techniques are being used at my daughter's school. The Whole-Brain Child helps parents understand how a child’s mind functions and why children act in the way they do. We want to help make the information in this book accessible to as many parents as possible, so we have provided below links to parent discussion guides by chapter as well as links to blog posts (written by Annie McClellan at Tapestry) detailing each of the 12 strategies in the book.