The Whole-Brain Child

left brain is working again, and discipline can therefore be much more eʃective. It’s as if you are a lif ...

The key here is that when your child is drowning in a right-brain emotional ɻood, you’ll do yourself ...

together so she could make sense of what had happened. When she talked through the moment the water had ...

brain processes our emotions and autobiographical memories, but our left side is what makes sense of ...

continue to try making sense of an experience until it succeeds. As parents, we can help this process a ...

We got to school and we hugged and said goodbye. You started to paint at the activity table and I waved b ...

touch with her body and fear, feels pain. On some level, she worries that the pain may never ...

Laura went on to help Jack recount the whole experience. Together they discussed how, in the ...

feelings of helplessness. The details of a conversation like this will obviously change along with the ...

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Integrating Ourselves: Connecting Our Left and Right Brain Now that you know more about the left and ...

brain, think about your own integration. When it comes to parenting, are you too right-brain ...

left, instead of using only my left, everything else went more smoothly and our relationship in general ...

CHAPTER 3 Building the Staircase of the Mind Integrating the Upstairs and Downstairs Brain One afternoon Jill heard ...

sister in the world.” As Jill told Dan this story, she explained that this last verbal torpedo had hit i ...

from the top of your neck to about the bridge of your nose. Scientists talk about these l ...

Your upstairs brain is completely diʃerent. It’s made up of the cerebral cortex and its various parts—pa ...

complexity, it is responsible for producing many of the characteristics we hope to see in our kids: S ...

originate downstairs—before using the upstairs to decide on a course of action. Once again, then, integ ...

kids are prone to getting “trapped downstairs,” without the use of their upstairs brain, which results in t ...