The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind

Complete with age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles and illustrations to help you provide an explanation for these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development in order that your children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives.

“[A] useful child-rearing resource for all of the family . . . The authors include a fair amount of brain science, but they present it for both adult and child audiences.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Strategies for getting a youngster to loosen up [with] compassion.”—The Washington Post

“This erudite, tender, and funny book is stuffed with fresh ideas based on the up to date neuroscience research. I urge all parents who want kind, happy, and emotionally healthy kids to read The Whole-Brain Child. This is my new baby gift.”—Mary Pipher, Ph.D., creator of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other

“Gives parents and teachers ideas to get all parts of a healthy child’s brain working together.”