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The whole-brain child 12 revolutionary strategies to nurture your child's developing mind

The authors explain the new science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures, along with advice on how to put this information to work in raising happier, calmer children.

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Main Author:	Siegel, Daniel J., 1957-
Other Authors:	Bryson, Tina Payne
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Delacorte Press, c2011.
Subjects:	Parenting. Child development. Child rearing.
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Summary:	The authors explain the new science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures, along with advice on how to put this information to work in raising happier, calmer children.
Item Description:	Includes index.
Physical Description:	xiii, 176 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:	9780553807912 0553807919 9780553386691 0553386697
Author Notes:	Daniel J. Siegel was born on September 2, 1957. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and executive director of the Mindsight Institute. He received a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his post-graduate medical education at UCLA. His training is in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. Siegel was the recipient of the UCLA psychiatry department's teaching award and several honorary fellowships for his work as director of UCLA's training program in child psychiatry and the Infant and Preschool Service at UCLA. He is the author of several books on parenting and child development including The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, and Parenting from the Inside Out, which he co-wrote with Mary Hartzell. Siegel is known as a mindfulness expert and for his work developing the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology which is an interdisciplinary view of life experience. He is the author of Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence--The Groundbreaking Meditation Practice. (Bowker Author Biography)