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Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids : The One Brain Book You Need to Help Your Child Grow Brighter, H...

by: David Walsh

ISBN: 9781439121191 | 1439121192

Format: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Pub. Date: 3/20/2012

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

Every week new discoveries about the brain make the news, often promising parents the latest "right" way to nurture their kids' developing brains and behavior. And every day there's a new technology that demands your child's attention, a new game or toy that purports to make your kid smarter, and a new snack promising to be healthy as well as tasty. How's a busy parent to make heads or tails of all these claims? You turn to Dr. David Walsh, an expert at translating the headline-making, cutting-edge findings into practical suggestions for parent... MOREing today. In his previous bestseller, Why Do They Act That Way?, Walsh showed how to manage the difficult teenage years by understanding how the adolescent brain develops. Now he's written a complete guide to parenting from birth through the teen years, with recommendations that will help maximize any child's potential. Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids doesn't just describe new research findings or explain interesting brain facts. It equips parents with usable information across a range of topics, like exercise, nutrition, play, sleep, stress, self-discipline, emotional intelligence, and connection. Some discoveries in neuroscience confirm age-old parental wisdom while others may prompt you to make immediate changes. Still other brain discoveries help explain behaviors that have puzzled parents forever, like why friendly, easygoing kids can become withdrawn and sullen dragons overnight when they enter adolescence, or why girls and boys tend to have such different classroom experiences. Filled with helpful quizzes and checklists for easy reference, Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids gives specific advice about how to make the best daycare, preschool, and schooling decisions for your kids; for example, how to deal with stressful events as a family, and how to manage your child's internet and media use. And all these findings across different fields of research work together in reaching the same goal: When children are guided to eat, sleep, play, exercise, learn, and connect with others in healthy ways, their minds blossom and they are able to reach their full potentialacademically, socially, physically, and emotionally. These real-life applications in Dr. Walsh's new book put science into practice with a personal plan that explains how (and why) you can parent with the brain in mind.

From birth onward, a child�s brain develops in amazing ways. Whether you�re pregnant with your first child or trying to figure out why adolescents act the way they do, parenting expert Dr. David Walsh shows you how to make the most of the latest breakthroughs in brain science and psychology in this complete, cradle-to-college guide to parenting.

Backed by science and filled with stories, Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids finds the practical advice in groundbreaking scientific headlines about memory, language, emotions, nutrition, play, and more. Dr. Walsh equips you with usable information about exercise, sleep, emotional intelligence, connection�all of which work together to help kids reach their full potential. Some of the recent discoveries in neuroscience confirm age-old parental wisdom, while other discoveries will prompt some immediate changes. With accessible explanations and handy tool kits for building your personalized brain-wise parenting plan, Dr. Walsh helps you help your kids grow up healthy, happy, and smart as you navigate today�s unique challenges�including bullying, stress, and the risks of the Internet and other digital media. Particularly timely in its information on the highly adaptable teenage brain and how to help adolescents manage the transition into adulthood, this is a personal plan for the most important job in the world: raising kids.

Our Children's Amazing Brains	p. 1
How to Raise Your Child's IQ	p. 14
How the Brain Listens, Speaks, Reads, and Writes	p. 30
Memory, Attention, and the Rule of Seven	p. 49
Brain Food: Nutrition and the Brain	p. 70
Play Is Serious Business	p. 87
Brain Workouts: Why Exercise Is Critical	p. 106
Your Brain's at Work While You Snooze	p. 117
... MORESelf-Discipline: The Key to Success	p. 135
A Brain Under Construction: The Adolescent Years	p. 153
Boy and Girl Brains: What's the Difference?	p. 168
Stress and the Brain	p. 181
Cyber Brains: Parenting in an Online World	p. 200
Wired Differently: Special Needs Brains, Mental Illness, and Chemical Use	p. 222
Brain-Wise Daycare, Preschool, and School Decisions	p. 239
The 21st-century Parent	p. 255
Notes	p. 261
Acknowledgments	p. 277
Index	p. 279
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David Walsh, Ph.D., is one of the most sought-after speakers in America on child and teen psychology, parenting, and children's brain development. Founder of Mind Positive Parenting in Minneapolis, he is an award-winning psychologist; author of Why Do They Act That Way? and No: Why Kids-of All Ages-Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It; a television personality; and the subject of a nationally televised PBS special, Raising Mediawise Kids.

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