The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive

By applying these discoveries to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child's brain and foster vital growth. No wonder kids can seem - and feel - so out of control. Do children conspire to make their parents' lives endlessly challenging? No - it's just their developing brain calling the shots! In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Raise calmer, happier children 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 feel

Ready Mommy said Pretty darn good - though not "revolutionary" - parenting advice. Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson's "The Whole Brain Child" fails to deliver on the titular promise of "revolutionary" parenting strategies to "truly help your kids be happier, healthier, and more fully themselves"; it does, however, provide innovative and effective explanations,. I recommend reading this book first and foremost if you are I read The Whole-Brain Child as assigned reading for a graduate program of Applied Developmental Psychology. This book provides a thorough, easy-to-understand explanation on the various parts and functions of the brain, and how that information can help parents understand their . "Perfect for all parents and teachers!" according to Missb. I wish I had this when I had my first son. This helps explain the developing brain and how as parents we put unrealistic expectations on our children based on their development. As a high school teacher and mum of young boys, this book has helped reshape my approach to teaching/