New PN: The Yes Brain

How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child

by Daniel Siegel, MD, & Tina Payne Bryson, PhD

“If you want to help your child grow into a person who’s able to live meaningfully and find success throughout his life, there’s virtually nothing more important than helping integrate his brain.”

DAN SIEGEL & TINA PAYNE BRYSON

FROM THE BOOK

“Parents want to help their kids become people who can handle themselves well and make good decisions, even when life is challenging.

They want them to care for others but also know how to stand up for themselves. They want them to be independent and also enjoy mutually rewarding relationships. They want them to avoid melting down when things don’t go their way.

So where should we focus our attention? The book you’re holding is our attempt to offer a response to that question. The essential idea is that parents can help children develop a Yes Brain, which produces four key characteristics:

Balance: the ability to manage emotions and behavior, so kids are less likely to flip their lids and lose control;
Resilience: the ability to bounce back when life’s inevitable problems and struggles arise;
Insight: the ability to look within and understand themselves, then use what they learn to make good decisions and be more in control of their lives;
Empathy: the ability to understand the perspective of another, then care enough to take action to make things better when appropriate.

You really can help your kids become more emotionally balanced, more resilient in the face of struggles, more insightful when it comes to understanding themselves and more empathic and caring toward others.

We couldn’t be more excited to share this science-inspired approach with you. Come with us, and enjoy the journey of learning about the Yes Brain.”

Brian's Notes

Dan Siegel is one of the world’s leading therapists, neuroscientists, and relationship, parenting and mindfulness experts.

He and Tina Payne Bryson have written some of the most powerful, “science-inspired” parenting books on how we can help bring out the best in our kids. I read five of them in a week last year and I’m working my way through creating Notes on each of them.

I started with The Power of Showing Up and we’ll be featuring No Drama Discipline, The Whole-Brain Child, and Brainstorm (all about raising teenagers!) soon.

As per the sub-title, this book is all about “How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child.” How do we do that? As per the intro, we need to help our kids create a “Yes Brain” by cultivating four fundamental qualities: balance, resilience, insight, and empathy.

The book is PACKED with practical insights (get a copy here) and I’m excited to help you apply them to your parenting life TODAY so let’s jump straight in!

Big Ideas

01: EUDAIMONIC BRAINS

02: INTEGRATION

03: WINDOW OF TOLERANCE

04: RESPONSE FLEXIBILITY

05: THE INNER SPARK

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, LITTLE WOMEN

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