The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Devel

Description: The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson The author of "Mindsight" now turns to kids. He shows how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so that children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives. Complete with clear explanations and age-appropriate strategies for dealing with struggles. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than 1 million copies in print! • The authors of No-Drama Discipline and The Yes Brain explain the new science of how a childs brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book. "Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your childs struggles."—Harvey Karp, M.D. In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children. The authors explain—and make accessible—the new science of how a childs brain is wired and how it matures. The "upstairs brain," which makes decisions and balances emotions, is under construction until the mid-twenties. And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule over the logic of the left brain. No wonder kids throw tantrums, fight, or sulk in silence. By applying these discoveries to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your childs brain and foster vital growth. Complete with age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles and illustrations that will help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so that your children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives. "[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."—Kirkus Reviews "Strategies for getting a youngster to chill out [with] compassion."—The Washington Post "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, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other"Gives parents and teachers ideas to get all parts of a healthy childs brain working together."—Parent to Parent Author Biography Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is an internationally acclaimed author and award-winning educator and is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is a co-investigator at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and is co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. His books include "Healing Trauma, The Healing Power of Emotion, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, Trauma and the Body, Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology", and more. He lives in Santa Monica, California. Review Advance praise for The Whole-Brain Child"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."—Publishers Weekly "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 The Whole-Brain Child."—Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence "Fears? Fights? Frustrations? Help is here! Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson turn leading brain science into simple, smart—and effective—solutions to your childs struggles."—Harvey Karp, M.D., bestselling author of The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block "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. I wish I had read it when my kids were young, but no one knew then what Siegel and Bryson share with us in an immensely practical way. This is my new baby gift."—Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other "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 "In their dynamic and readable new book, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson sweep aside the old models of good and bad parenting to offer a scientific focus: the impact of parenting on brain development. Parents will certainly recognize themselves in the lively aha anecdotes that fill these pages. More important, they will see how everyday empathy and insight can help a child to integrate his or her experience and develop a more resilient brain."—Michael Thompson, Ph.D., co-author of the bestselling Raising Cain Review Quote Advance praise for The Whole-Brain Child "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, Excerpt from Book Chapter 1 Parenting with the Brain in Mind Parents are often experts about their childrens bodies. They know that a temperature above 98.6 degrees is a fever. They know to clean out a cut so it doesnt get infected. They know which foods are most likely to leave their child wired before bedtime. But even the most caring, best-educated parents often lack basic information about their childs brain. Isnt this surprising? Especially when you consider the central role the brain plays in virtually every aspect of a childs life that parents care about: discipline, decision making, self-awareness, school, relationships, and so on. In fact, the brain pretty much determines who we are and what we do. And since the brain itself is significantly shaped by the experiences we offer as parents, knowing about the way the brain changes in response to our parenting can help us to nurture a stronger, more resilient child. So we want to introduce you to the whole-brain perspective. Wed like to explain some fundamental concepts about the brain and help you apply your new knowledge in ways that will make parenting easier and more meaningful. Were not saying that raising a whole-brain child will get rid of all the frustrations that come with parenting. But by understanding a few simple and easy-to-master basics about how the brain works, youll be able to better understand your child, respond more effectively to difficult situations, and build a foundation for social, emotional, and mental health. What you do as a parent matters, and well provide you with straightforward, scientifically based ideas that will help you build a strong relationship with your child that can help shape his brain well and give him the best foundation for a healthy and happy life. Let us tell you a story that illustrates how useful this information can be for parents. Eea Woo Woo One day Marianna received a call at work telling her that her two- year-old son, Marco, had been in a car accident with his babysitter. Marco was fine, but the babysitter, who was driving, had been taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Marianna, a principal at an elementary school, frantically rushed to the scene of the accident, where she was told that the babysitter had experienced an epileptic seizure while driving. Marianna found a firefighter unsuccessfully attempting to console her toddler. She took Marco in her arms, and he immediately began to calm down as she comforted him. As soon as he stopped crying, Marco began telling Marianna what had happened. Using his two-year-old language, which only his parents and babysitter would be able to understand, Marco continually repeated the phrase "Eea woo woo." "Eea" is his word for "Sophia," the name of his beloved babysitter, and "woo woo" refers to his version of the siren on a fire truck (or in this case, an ambulance). By repeatedly telling his mother "Eea woo woo," Marco was focusing on the detail of the story that mattered most to him: Sophia had been taken away from him. In a situation like this, many of us would be tempted to assure Marco that Sophia would be fine, then immediately focus on something else to get the childs mind off the situation: "Lets go get some ice cream!" In the days that followed, many parents would try to avoid upsetting their child by not discussing the accident. The problem with the "lets go get some ice cream" approach is that it leaves the child confused about what happened and why. He is still full of big and scary emotions, but he isnt allowed (or helped) to deal with them in an effective way. Marianna didnt make that mistake. She had taken Tinas classes on parenting and the brain, and she immediately put what she knew to good use. That night and over the next week, when Marcos mind continually brought him back to the car crash, Marianna helped him retell the story over and over again. Shed say, "Yes, you and Sophia were in an accident, werent you?" At this point, Marco would stretch out his arms and shake them, imitating Sophias seizure. Marianna would continue, "Yes, Sophia had a seizure and started shaking, and the car crashed, didnt it?" Marcos next statement was, of course, the familiar "Eea woo woo," to which Marianna would respond, "Thats right. The woo woo came and took Sophia to the doctor. And now shes all better. Remember when we went to see her yesterday? Shes doing just fine, isnt she?" In allowing Marco to repeatedly retell the story, Marianna was helping him understand what had happened so he could begin to deal with it emotionally. Since she knew the importance of helping her sons brain process the frightening experience, she helped him tell and retell the events so that he could process his fear and go on with his daily routines in a healthy and balanced way. Over the next few days, Marco brought up the accident less and less, until it became just another of his life experiences-albeit an important one. As you read the following pages, youll learn specifics about why Marianna responded as she did, and why, both practically and neurologically, it was so helpful to her son. Youll be able to apply your new knowledge about the brain in numerous ways that make parenting your own child more manageable and meaningful. The concept at the heart of Mariannas response, and of this book, is integration. A clear understanding of integration will give you the power to completely transform the way you think about parenting your kids. It can help you enjoy them more and better prepare them to live emotionally rich and rewarding lives. What Is Integration and Why Does It Matter? Most of us dont think about the fact that our brain has many different parts with different jobs. For example, you have a left side of the brain that helps you think logically and organize thoughts into sentences, and a right side that helps you experience emotions and read nonverbal cues. You also have a "reptile brain" that allows you to act instinctually and make split-second survival decisions, and a "mammal brain" that leads you toward connection and relationships. One part of your brain is devoted to dealing with memory; another to making moral and ethical decisions. Its almost as if your brain has multiple personalities-some rational, some irrational; some reflective, some reactive. No wonder we can seem like different people at different times! The key to thriving is to help these parts work well together-to integrate them. Integration takes the distinct parts of your brain and helps them work together as a whole. Its similar to what happens in the body, which has different organs to perform different jobs: the lungs breathe air, the heart pumps blood, the stomach digests food. For the body to be healthy, these organs all need to be integrated. In other words, they each need to do their individual job while also working together as a whole. Integration is simply that: linking different elements together to make a well-functioning whole. Just as with the healthy functioning of the body, your brain cant perform at its best unless its different parts work together in a coordinated and balanced way. Thats what integration does: it coordinates and balances the separate regions of the brain that it links together. Its easy to see when our kids arent integrated-they become overwhelmed by their emotions, confused and chaotic. They cant respond calmly and capably to the situation at hand. Tantrums, meltdowns, aggression, and most of the other challenging experiences of parenting-and life-are a result of a loss of integration, also known as dis-integration. We want to help our children become better integrated so they can use their whole brain in a coordinated way. For example, we want them to be horizontally integrated, so that their left-brain logic can work well with their right-brain emotion. We also want them to be vertically integrated, so that the physically higher parts of their brain, which let them thoughtfully consider their actions, work well with the lower parts, which are more concerned with instinct, gut reactions, and survival. The way integration actually takes place is fascinating, and its something that most people arent aware of. In recent years, scientists have developed brain-scanning technology that allows researchers to study the brain in ways that were never before possible. This new technology has confirmed much of what we previously believed about the brain. However, one of the surprises that has shaken the very foundations of neuroscience is the discovery that the brain is actually "plastic," or moldable. This means that the brain physically changes throughout the course of our lives, not just in childhood, as we had previously assumed. What molds our brain? Experience. Even into old age, our experiences actually change the physical structure of the brain. When we undergo an experience, our brain cells-called neurons-become active, or "fire." The brain has one hundred billion neurons, each with an average of ten thousand connections to other neurons. The ways in which particular circuits in the brain are activated determines the nature of our mental activity, ranging from perceiving sights or sounds to more abstract thought and reasoning. When neurons fire together, they grow new connections between them. Over time, the connections that result from firing lead to "rewiring" in the brain. This is incredibly exciting news. It means that we arent held captive for the rest of our lives by the way our brain works at this moment-we can actually rewire it so that we can be healthier and happier. This is true not only for children and adolescents, but also for each of u Details ISBN0553386697 Author Tina Payne Bryson Publisher Bantam Language English ISBN-10 0553386697 ISBN-13 9780553386691 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 649.101 Illustrations Yes Residence CA, US Birth 1957 Affiliation UCLA School of Medicine Short Title WHOLE BRAIN CHILD Pages 176 Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-09-11 Subtitle 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Childs Developing Mind Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2012-09-11 NZ Release Date 2012-09-11 US Release Date 2012-09-11 UK Release Date 2012-09-11 Imprint Random House Inc Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:44752271;

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