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The Whole-Brain Child

12 Proven Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind

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The Whole-Brain Child

By: Tina Payne Bryson, Daniel Siegel
Narrated by: Daniel Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson
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In this pioneering, practical book for parents, neuroscientist Daniel J. Siegel and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson explain the new science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures. Different parts of a child's brain develop at different speeds and understanding these differences can help you turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child's brain and raise calmer, happier children.

Featuring clear explanations, age-appropriate strategies and illustrations that will help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child will help your children to lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives using twelve key strategies, including:

Name It to Tame It: Corral raging right-brain behavior through left-brain storytelling, appealing to the left brain's affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional storms and bodily tension.
Engage, Don't Enrage: Keep your child thinking and listening, instead of purely reacting.
Move It or Lose It: Use physical activities to shift your child's emotional state.
Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By: Guide your children when they are stuck on a negative emotion, and help them understand that feelings come and go.
SIFT: Help children pay attention to the Sensations, Images, Feelings, and Thoughts within them so that they can make better decisions and be more flexible.
Connect Through Conflict: Use discord to encourage empathy and greater social success. Child Psychology Developmental Psychology Education Parenting & Families Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships
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Critic reviews

One of the best books I have read on how to parent - it goes to the top of my list! (Sue Gerhardt, author of Why Love Matters)
Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson have created a masterful, reader-friendly guide to helping children grow their emotional intelligence. This brilliant method transforms everyday interactions into valuable brain-shaping moments. Anyone who cares for children - or who loves a child - should read (Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence)
A delightful, intelligent and down-to-Earth book... every parent and teacher should read it (Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary)
This erudite, tender and funny book is filled with fresh ideas based on the latest neuroscience research. I urge all parents who want kind, happy and emotionally healthy kids to read The Whole-Brain Child. This is my new baby gift (Mary Pipher, PhD, author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other)
Fears? Fights? Frustrations? Help is here! Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson turn leading brain science into simple, smart - and effective - solutions to your child's struggles (Harvey Karp, MD, author of The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block)
The Whole-Brain Child is chock-full of strategies for raising happy, resilient children. It offers powerful tools for helping children develop the emotional intelligence they will need to be successful in the world. Parents will learn ways to feel more connected to their children and more satisfied in their role as a parent. Most of all, The Whole-Brain Child helps parents teach kids about how their brain actually works, giving even very young children the self-understanding that can lead them to make good choices and, ultimately, to lead meaningful and joyful lives (Christine Carter, Ph.D., author of Raising Happiness)
Siegel and Bryson reveal that an integrated brain with parts that cooperate in a coordinated and balanced manner creates a better understanding of self, stronger relationships, and success in school, among other benefits. With illustrations, charts, and even a handy "Refrigerator Sheet," the authors have made every effort to make brain science parent-friendly
Engaging read with fun illustrations
Gives parents and teachers ideas to get all parts of a healthy child's brain working together
Very approachable and readable (Claire Parker)
[A] useful child-rearing resource for the entire family. . . The authors include a fair amount of brain science, but they present it for both adult and child audiences
Strategies for getting a youngster to chill out [with] compassion
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This book taught me more than anything I could have read on google when trying to decipher my daughter’s outbursts and outlandish behaviour.

It has truly changed my life and my family dynamic and made me a much better listener and attentive mother. I am more connected to my daughters for having read this.

Astounding

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The book was not too long, good in general but of course more examples on different situations can be useful. If you truly understand the ideas, with some thinking, you recognize how to use them. Nice to have the last chapter where one can check the methods for each age, however in audiobook form not easy to find the right age as everything is in one chapter. I bought the physical book to add to my bookshelf so I can read it again to remind myself of the lessons. The book focuses quite much on families with siblings, but one child families are becoming more and more common, and not spoiling the one child can be difficult, the book didn't rely touch this, however not sure is it in the topic. Will read the authors "No drama discipline" book next, that might include that topic.

Great book overall

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This book has already change my life for the better. My two year old is hugging me again!

I didn’t realise how much I would learn about myself.

It’s reduced my stress levels and improved the overall mood of our household.

Thank you

Game changer!

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Fantastic informative book .This had really helped me understand the children I work with and how to help them and my own children .

So informative -changed my parenting

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loved every minute of it. all parents must read this book to better understand themselves and their kids

brilliant book

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