| Title | The Whole-Brain Child |
| Author | Tina Payne Bryson, Daniel J. Siegel |
| Year of Publication | October 4, 2011 |
| Genres | Parenting Book |
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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind is a Parenting Book. Complete with clear explanations, age-appropriate strategies for dealing with everyday difficulties, and illustrations to help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole Brain Child shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so your children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives.
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The Whole-Brain Child Summary
In this groundbreaking, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and best-selling author of Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson demystifies meltdowns and anger, explaining the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. The “upper brain,” which makes decisions and balances emotions, is under construction well into the mid-twenties. And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule the left brain’s logic. No wonder children can seem—and feel—so out of control. By applying these findings to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument, or fear into an opportunity to integrate your child’s brain and foster vital growth. Raise calmer, happier children using twelve key strategies, including:
- Name it to tame it: Control angry right-brain behavior by telling left-brain stories, appealing to the left-brain affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional storms and body tension.
- Engage, don’t rage: Keep your child thinking and listening, rather than just reacting.
- Move it or lose it: Use physical activities to shift your child’s emotional state.
- Let the clouds of emotion pass: Guide your children when they are caught in a negative emotion and help them understand that feelings come and go.
- CRIMINATION: Help children pay attention to the sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts they have inside them so they can make better decisions and be more flexible.
- Connecting Through Conflict: Using Discord to foster empathy and greater social success.
Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store, your preschooler refuses to get dressed, and your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Are children conspiring to make their parents’ lives an endless challenge? No, it’s just their developing brains calling the shots.
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