What You Will Learn

Brain Rules for Parents
A Workshop by the New York Times Best-Selling Author of Brain Rules

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What You Will Learn

Introduction

  • Parenting is really about brain development
  • Being selective about science
  • Why do we need parents, anyway?
  • Five inescapable questions

Pregnancy

  • The four things that improve a baby’s brain development
  • Electronic gadgets: Forget ’em
  • Is morning sickness a good thing?
  • When baby wants to be left alone
  • Severe stress hurts both mom and baby

Relationship

  • Bundle of joy? Yes, but…
  • 83% of marriages suffer in the transition to parenthood
  • The four biggest reasons you’ll fight
  • Men, get out the vacuum cleaner
  • Two steps to a relationship that’s good for baby

Smart Baby: Seeds

  • 8,000 neurons per second!
  • What’s better than IQ
  • The brain cannot learn unless it feels safe
  • What does “smart’ mean?
  • Seven types of intelligence
  • Every brain is wired differently

Smart Baby: SOIL

  • The best kind of playroom
  • Talking to your child improves IQ
  • How to raise cognition scores by 50%
  • TV before age 2
  • The harm in hyper-parenting

Happy Baby: Seeds

  • Could happiness be genetic?
  • Where emotions happen in the brain
  • Mirror neurons: I feel you
  • The brain freely mixes emotion and cognition

Happy Baby: Soil

  • The secret to happiness
  • Verbalizing emotions
  • Empathy calms the nerves
  • The one parenting style that works

Moral baby

  • Are babies born moral?
  • The three-legged stool of discipline
  • Kids lie a lot (every two hours, by age 4)
  • Explaining your rules

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