What are Brain Rules?
Brain Rules is the term Dr Medina gives to what he knows for sure about how the early-childhood brain works. Each Brain Rule is quarried from the much larger seams of behavioral psychology, cellular biology, and molecular biology. Each was selected for its ability to assist new mums and dads in the daunting task of caring for a helpless little human.
Dr Medina simplifies complicated molecular biological brain research and provides his audiences with easy to understand, practical, usable nuggets. This ground-breaking information makes parenting clearer, easier and more do-able. It provides a road map to raising a smart and happy baby. Some of the things that Dr Medina will address in this program:
- Where nature ends and nurture begins.
- Why men should do more household chores.
- What you do when emotions run hot affects how your baby turns out, because babies need to feel safe above all.
- Why TV is harmful for children under 2 years old.
- Why your child’s ability to relate to others predicts her future math performance.
- Why smart and happy are inseparable. Pursuing your child’s intellectual success at the expense of his happiness achieves neither.
- Why praising effort is better than praising intelligence.
- Why the best predictor of academic performance is not IQ. It’s self-control.
