The Whole-Brain Child

the course of our insight into the mind. One of the researchers picked up a peanut and ate it as the monkey watc ...

hundreds of times they’ve watched their older siblings hit, kick, and throw a ball. At the most comple ...

with an important person in our life, we have a diʃerent brain. Since none of us is working from a ...

what she needs? What if, more often than not, her parents are unavailable and rejecting? Then confusi ...

relationships are cold and people are essentially distant, critical, or competitive, that inɻuences what t ...

the mindsight skills that are necessary for participating as a contributing member of a family. His p ...

impact on how the child deals with that aspect of his or her personality, as well as how shy ...

almost impossible to connect in an open and caring way with another person. Remember the amygdala an ...

Likewise, when your eleven-year-old ɹnds out that he didn’t get accepted into the art program he’d set ...

relationships. What You Can Do: Helping Your Child Integrate Self and Other Whole-Brain Strategy #11: Increase ...

neurotransmitter, which means that it enables communication between brain cells. Your brain cells recei ...

classroom experience, but watch for ways to explicitly connect what you’re doing to the concept of receptivity. ...

playful, so be sensitive to the cues you receive, especially with older kids. But if you’re sensitive to ...

Whole-Brain Strategy #12: Connection Through Conflict: Teach Kids to Argue with a “We” in Mind ...

We might wish we could somehow help our kids avoid all conɻict, but we can’t. If they’re going to be in ...

lessons we want. For example, your inclination might be to say, “Well, what did you do to Mark? I’m sure ...

teach, you might go at the conversation a bit diʃerently. First you’d want to demonstrate an awareness o ...

up, even if he says he’s ɹne. As evidence, you can point to the friend’s body language and fac ...

help them develop mindsight. Sometimes a sincere apology is enough, especially when combined with ...

or might not teach Colin not to remove his brother’s things without permission, but it wouldn’t generalize into ...