New PN: The Power of Showing Up
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How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains are Wiredby Daniel Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson, PhD |
“When parents consistently show up, their children's minds come to expect that the world is a place that can be understood and meaningfully interacted with - even in times of trouble and pain. Showing up thus creates in our kids neural pathways that lead to selfhood, grit, strength, and resilience."DAN SIEGEL & TINA PAYNE BRYSON |
FROM THE BOOK“In our most recent book, The Yes Brain, we answered a question we receive from parents all the time: What are the most important characteristics I should emphasize in my kids?
In that book we discussed the primary attributes parents should aim to instill in their children in order to help them grow into adults who live happy, successful, relational, and meaningful lives. The book you’re now holding answers a different question, one focused less on the qualities within children, and more on a parent’s approach to child-rearing. What’s the single most important thing I can do for my kids to help them succeed and feel at home in the world? Notice this question focuses less on which skills and abilities you want to build in your children, and more on how you approach the parent-child relationship. Our answer is simple (but not necessarily easy): Show up for your kids. We’re excited to explain what we mean by that, and to help you see how crucial the act of showing up is. We can’t wait to strip away all of the child-rearing debates and controversies, and boil parenting down to the one concept that matters most when it comes to helping your kids be happy and healthy, so they enjoy and succeed in life and in relationships.” |
Brian's Notes
Dan Siegel is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who is one of the world’s leading therapists and neuroscientists and is also one of the world’s leading parenting and mindfulness experts. Among many other things, he created the field of interpersonal neurobiology and has written over 20 books.
He is also one of my favorite people on the planet. We got to know one another over 20 years ago and I felt like I got a spiritual big brother. His presence and EMBODIMENT of the ideals he teaches is as inspiring as the wisdom itself.
Before Alexandra and I had Emerson (over thirteen years ago now—WOW time flies!), I read his first parenting book: Parenting from the Inside Out.
More recently, I read ALL of the incredible parenting books he’s written with Tina Payne Bryson including The Yes Brain, The Whole-Brain Child, and No Drama Discipline.
Those books were life-changing and I’m excited to share my Notes on each of them.
For now, I’m excited to share five of my favorite Big Ideas from THIS great book (get a copy here!) and help you apply that wisdom to your life TODAY.
Let’s get to work!
P.S. Check out my Notes on another one of Dan’s books called Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation. And, check out Notes on a few of my other all-time favorite parenting books: Mindset and Self-Theories by Carol Dweck and 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People by her protégé Dave Yeager.
(Also, check out my old-school Fatherhood 101 class featuring my Top 10 favorite Ideas I created when Emerson was a baby before we had Eleanor!)
He is also one of my favorite people on the planet. We got to know one another over 20 years ago and I felt like I got a spiritual big brother. His presence and EMBODIMENT of the ideals he teaches is as inspiring as the wisdom itself.
Before Alexandra and I had Emerson (over thirteen years ago now—WOW time flies!), I read his first parenting book: Parenting from the Inside Out.
More recently, I read ALL of the incredible parenting books he’s written with Tina Payne Bryson including The Yes Brain, The Whole-Brain Child, and No Drama Discipline.
Those books were life-changing and I’m excited to share my Notes on each of them.
For now, I’m excited to share five of my favorite Big Ideas from THIS great book (get a copy here!) and help you apply that wisdom to your life TODAY.
Let’s get to work!
P.S. Check out my Notes on another one of Dan’s books called Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation. And, check out Notes on a few of my other all-time favorite parenting books: Mindset and Self-Theories by Carol Dweck and 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People by her protégé Dave Yeager.
(Also, check out my old-school Fatherhood 101 class featuring my Top 10 favorite Ideas I created when Emerson was a baby before we had Eleanor!)
Big Ideas
01: IMPERFECT PARENTS
02: THE FOUR S'S
03: WHAT MAKES A GOOD PARENT?
04: RELATIONAL TRUST FUNDS
05: HISTORY IS NOT A DESTINY
“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you"CHRISTOPHER ROBIN TO WINNIE-THE-POOH, POOH'S GRAND ADVENTURE |
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