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

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And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule over the logic of the left brain. The brain is enormously complex with different areas performing various tasks, yet constantly interlinking. special la copiii mici, emisfera dreaptă şi emoţiile ei au tendinţa de a domina logica emisferei stângi. Siegel explores how mindfulness practices can aid the process of interpersonal and intrapersonal attunement, leading to personal growth and well-being.

By providing 'twelve revolutionary strategies to nurture your child's developing mind,' this book will enable you to 'survive everyday parenting struggles, and help your family thrive. I'm looking forward to using these strategies with my own children especially after learning how I could be handling arguments and emotions in a better way. Are you a frazzled parent, juggling demands, fighting over unfinished homework, and refereeing sibling fights?As a parent, you need to help your child to explore the new brain functions as it gets them and guide her through the process of getting used to using these new functions. It helps if they have a broad "feeling" vocabulary, so they can use specific words like "disappointed," as opposed to a more general one like feeling "sad.

If you become dis-integrated and veer too much to one side, you risk getting tangled in the chaos of one riverbank—where you feel like you don’t have control—or. However, one side of the bank represents chaos, where children feel out of control and in turmoil, and the other side represents rigidity. Keeping a balance between complementary parts of the brain helps you navigate life with even-mindedness. This isn't voodoo science you use on your children to control them, these are strategies you share with them so they can have greater control over their own emotions.

I'd have given this book five stars if the writing were a bit more engaging; as it is, though the material is often fascinating and incredibly relevant (I've a 28-month old toddler at home! Ditambah lagi ada gambar-gambar ilustrasi yang sangat membantu orang-orang awam seperti saya untuk memahami materi teknis yang disampaikan. 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. Frustrated parents often ask me why the disciplinary techniques they are using with their children aren't working, or are even making things worse. The authors emphasize, 'With an understanding of the brain, you can be more intentional about what you teach your kids, how you respond to them, and why.