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Apr 8, 2024 · The Power of Integrating the Brain's Left and Right Hemispheres. The book emphasizes the importance of helping children integrate their logical, analytical left brain with their intuitive, emotional right brain. This allows for better decision-making, emotional control, and overall well-being. Strategies like 'Connect and Redirect' and 'Name it ...
Stages. The Refrigerator Sheet briefly highlights the book’s most important points. The Whole-Brain Ages and Stages chart offers a simple summary of how the book’s ideas can be implemented according to the age of the child. Chapter 1 explains some fundamental concepts about the brain and the reasons integrating all parts
- Marty Slyter
- 2017
- A Young Child’S Upstairs & Downstairs Brain
- Integrating Memories
- Cheat Sheet
I loved the use of the terms “upstairs” and “downstairs” brain and the imagery of the stairs connecting the two to form a fully-functioning brain. And the amygdalaof the brain as the “babygate” across the stairs. The job of the amygdala in the brain is to quickly process emotion, especially anger or fear; it is the primitive part of the brain. It i...
One part of The Whole-Brain Child that I found helpful was the section on helping our children integrate their memories. The Siegel and Bryson go in depth about implicit memories, the ones that aren’t readily accessible but form “expectations about the way the world works, based on our previous experiences.” (page 72) An extreme example of this is ...
The back of the book has a cheat sheet, or refrigerator sheet, that outlines the important points from the book. And further back in the book is a reference chart that is broken down by ages and stages of development, with specific tools for you to use for each of the twelve strategies for helping to integrate children’s brains. The Whole-Brain Chi...
Feb 15, 2012 · And with The Whole-Brain Child, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson have written a book to help us do just that. Siegel and Bryson, the executive director and the director of parenting education, respectively, at the Mindsight Institute in Los Angeles, offer 12 strategies that adults can use to help nurture their children’s maturing brains ...
Jan 1, 2011 · 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, packaging, and delivery of many tried-and-true parenting techniques that turn out to be ...
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Aug 16, 2012 · 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 ...
Oct 4, 2011 · 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 ...
