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The Whole-Brain Child

By: Dr Tina Payne Bryson, Dr Daniel Siegel
Narrated by: Dr Daniel Siegel, Dr Tina Payne Bryson
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Summary

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. 

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 12 key strategies, including: 

Name It to Tame It: corral raging right-brain behaviour 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 feelings come and go. 

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. 

Connect Through Conflict: use discord to encourage empathy and greater social success. 

Public Domain (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK

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Amazing 👌

Another fantastic book by Dr Daniel Siegel and Dr Tina Payne.
I truly enjoy listening to your books they have really began to help me become the mother I want to be for my children.
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World class

World class loved it. Very informative and really well read. So easy to understand. Amazing.

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Excellent

excellent book. really helped me to deal with my 7 year old sons behaviour and perhaps to look at my own also. gives parents tools to try and handle situations differently. highly recommending it to all my friends with kids too read. practical strategies in last chapter, it could be listened to again and again to remind me of main points in a summarised version. excellent.

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Simple, easy and clear

Great logical explanations. It took me a long time to figure out what to do and what not to do.

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Really Helpful & Practical

I found the content very clear and easy to integrate into my parenting and childminding practices. And I see the results every day.

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Good informative book

This is a worthwhile book for its content.
I do wish some of these lay science/self help books would make separate US and UK editions. I find the very slow American narrators on this and similar audible output irritating. Thank goodness for the gradual speed buttons on audible!

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Excellent book

Absolutely excellent information, well read and concise. I look forward to listening to it again.

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Must read for every parent

Love this book, amazing, recommend to all of my friends who has kids. My hubby will listen it next. Great stories and very good examples with real stories.

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helpfully strategies

Enjoyed listening to this book and have learnt a lot of new strategies for parenting.

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So informative -changed my parenting

Fantastic informative book .This had really helped me understand the children I work with and how to help them and my own children .

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