The Whole-Brain Child

The fun of this game, coupled with the physical activity, can completely change your toddler’s mind-set ...

At times, too, you can simply explain the concept: I know you’re mad you didn’t get to go on the sleepover w ...

sort of balance and control by moving their body, which can remove blockages and pave the way for ...

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Integrating Ourselves: Using Our Own Mental Staircase “My young son was screaming for forty-ɹve minutes and I ...

didn’t know how to comfort him. I ɹnally screamed back, ‘Sometimes I hate you!’ ” “My son was two and scra ...

But don’t forget: parenting crises are openings for growth and integration. You can use the moments ...

for your own actions. This step needs to occur as quickly as possible. The sooner you repair the ...

CHAPTER 4 Kill the Butterflies! Integrating Memory for Growth and Healing “There is no way I’m taking swimming lessons ...

sense, there may be an easily ɹxable reason. They may simply be hungry or tired. Or maybe they’ve been in t ...

feeling, a smell, an image—and links that experience with similar experiences from the past. These ...

Doesn’t this ɹt with your experience? The very mention of biting into a lemon can make you salivate. O ...

and clothes may have really happened, but memory is not an exact reproduction of events from your past. Wh ...

you just do it. You’ve done it so many times before, you don’t even think about what you’re doing. You ...

When my wife was pregnant with each of our two children, I used to sing to them in the womb. It ...

implicit memories cause us to form expectations about the way the world works, based on our previous ...

TINA: Can you tell me anything about what’s going on with the swimming? SON: I don’t know, Mom. I ju ...

TINA: whether they are good or bad, your brain and body remember them? So when I say “Dodger Stadium” ...

SON: Exactly. TINA: And the reason your brain gets so excited when I say “Dodger Stadium” is because you’ve ...

TINA: all the memories you have of swimming that have been really fun and good. Can you think of a goo ...