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

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This book is directed at parents who never took neuroscience in college; it doesn't address picky details like which study said that and what their sample size was.

As a parent and a therapist, I'll recommend this book to other people who want to teach their children social-emotional skills and figure out some helpful ways to respond to their children's emotions. In addition, variations in parenting techniques work differently across the various age groups of children based upon their development. Vertical integration involves the intuitive, more primitive parts of the brain, allowing the more reasonable prefrontal cortex to pause and re-consider a little.A child's mental health can be likened to being in a small boat floating down a peacefully flowing river between two banks. The Whole-Brain Child explains the neurological and developmental reasons for many of your child’s meltdowns and misbehaviors.

Teens often retreat to emotional deserts, because it gives them a feeling of control when they become overwhelmed by the emotional overload of adolescence. The book had a few really useful tools which I liked (for example, the wheel of awareness, and "move it or lose it"). To help your child practice decision-making, list two to three examples of decisions you could have her make for herself.Endlessly repeats the myth of left and right sides brain, sounds like a good book for parents trying to understand children behaviour, but for anyone with surface level understanding of how the brain works it is slow and frustrating. It provides great graphics and suggests ways in which parents might talk to their children about how the brain works. Different regions of the brain manage different functions—for example, the right side of the brain is associated with creativity and big-picture thinking, while the left side of the brain is logic-oriented.