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

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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.

the way to calmly connect with and communicate love for a child—no matter how extreme the behavior—while still setting clear and consistent limits The book proposes “twelve revolutionary strategies to nurture your child’s developing mind, survive everyday parenting struggles, and help your family thrive”. Although far from “revolutionary”, The Whole-Brain Child proposes useful tools based on neuroscience to deal with everyday parenting. In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson demystify the meltdowns and aggravation, explaining the new science of how a child’s 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 can seem—and feel—so out of control. 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. Raise calmer, happier children using twelve key strategies, including 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. Use the Remote of the Mind: Replay memories to bring awareness to your child and enable him/her to integrate memoryName 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.

Their premise is that these twelve strategies help “integrate” children’s brains, that is, “coordinate[] and balance[] the separate regions of the brain” so as to optimize mental health. Using the image of a child inside a canoe floating down a river, they explain that veering close to the bank of chaos leaves the kid feeling too out of control to relax whereas drifting close to the bank of rigidity makes the kid too rigid to function ideally (instead “imposing control on everything and everyone”). “By helping our kids connect left [brain] and right [brain]” - as well as their “upstairs” and “downstairs” brains and implicit and explicit memories - “we give them a better chance of [finding] . . . harmonious flow between the[] two extremes,” which in turn will minimize tantrums and other results of “dis-integration.” Of course, they warn, the results won’t be perfect both because we should expect imperfection in ourselves as parents and because kids are biologically unable to always “be rational, regulate their emotions, make good decisions, think before acting, and be empathetic.” 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. The book is so good but it’s easy to read these books and not put the ideas into practice. So I decided to make an infographic to print out and thought I’d share it here with you. First things first: I'm a dad with a 2 years old child and probably share every moms and dads usual issues and questions. By the way, we split everything that involves our child at home, meaning I do half of ALL. Mesele şu ki evin ilk katı olan alt beyin herkeste var. Bu özellikler doğuştan geliyor. Dolayısıyla da önemli olan yirmili yaşlara kadar gelişmeye devam eden üst beyni inşa edebilmek. Bu yüzden çocuk alt beyinde kısılı kaldığında daha hırçın, daha bencil oluyor. Hedef her zaman üst katı olabildiğince iyi inşa edebilmek olmalı. Mesele sağ ve sol, üst ve alt beynin entegrasyonunu sağlayabilmek.

This is exactly what happened when I finished reading “ The Whole-Brain Child” by Dr Daniel Siegel and Dr Tina Payne Bryson. I was expecting some great new "revolutionary" strategies, when in fact I don't think there were any new concepts.