The Whole-Brain Child

Now that you’ve learned a good bit about mindsight, here’s something you can read to your own chil ...

Integrating Ourselves: Making Sense of Our Own Story The most important “we” in your life as a parent i ...

signiɹcantly impacts your child’s future. Research studies have consistently shown that when parents oʃ ...

didn’t comfort him when he was afraid or sad, and they were even cold and distant, leaving him to weather ...

whatever we’re experiencing is a powerful insight that can motivate us to begin and continue our ...

CONCLUSION Bringing it All Together We all have hopes and dreams for our children. For most of us, they involv ...

integration in your children and helping develop their upstairs brain, you prepare them to be better ...

actively choose how they interact with the people around them. They can captain the ship of their lives, ...

own children connect and redirect with your grandchildren! This is how we integrate our lives across the g ...

parents can have on their children and on society as a whole. There’s nothing more important you can do as a ...

seen, heard, and cared for. We hope what we’ve shared in these pages will give you the solid founda ...

REFRIGERATOR SHEET The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson To download a printable ref ...

• Engage, don’t enrage: In high-stress situations, engage your child’s upstairs brain, rather than tri ...

more control over how they feel. • What you can do: • Let the clouds of emotion roll by: Remind ...

Whole-Brain Ages and Stages As your kids get older, you may ɹnd yourself wanting help apply ...

your bear. I haven’t seen him in a long time. WHOLE-BRAIN STRATEGY 2: Name it to tame it: When big, ...

engage her upstairs brain: Let’s go outside. What could you do with that stick in the yard? WHOLE-BRAIN S ...

6: Use the remote of the mind: After an upsetting event, the internal remote lets a child paus ...

“feel” and “am.” When young children feel sad (or angry or afraid), they have a hard time underst ...

still, quiet, and peaceful. TYPE OF INTEGRATION Integrating Self and Other WHOLE-BRAIN STRATEGY 11: Increase the fam ...