The Whole-Brain Child

own children connect and redirect with your grandchildren! This is
how we integrate our lives across the generations.
We hope this vision will inspire you to become the parent you
want to be. Granted, sometimes you’ll fall short of your ideals. And
yes, much of what we’ve shared requires real eʃort on the part of
you and your children. It’s not always easy, after all, to go back
and retell stories about painful experiences, or to remember to
engage the upstairs when your child is upset, rather than triggering
the downstairs. But every whole-brain strategy oʃers practical
steps you can take right now to make your life as a family better
and more manageable. You don’t need to become a perfect
superparent or follow some sort of prescribed agenda that
programs your kids to be ideal little robot children. You’ll still
make plenty of mistakes (just as we do), and so will your kids (just
as ours do). But the beauty of the whole-brain perspective is that it
lets you understand that even the mistakes are opportunities to grow
and learn. This approach involves being intentional about what
we’re doing and where we’re going, while accepting that we are all
human. Intention and attention are our goals, not some rigid, harsh
expectation of perfection.
Once you discover the whole-brain approach, you’ll likely want
to share it with the others in your life who will join you in this
great responsibility of raising the future. Whole-brain parents
become enthusiastic about sharing what they know with other
parents as well as with teachers and caregivers who can work as a
team to promote health and well-being in their children. As you
create a whole-brain family, you also join a broader vision of
creating an entire society full of rich, relational communities where
emotional well-being is nurtured for this and future generations.
We are all synaptically and socially connected, and bringing
integration into our lives creates a world of well-being.
You can see how passionately we believe in the positive impact