Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids (okładka  twarda, wyd. 03.2022)

From a leading child psychologist comes this groundbreaking new understanding of children`s behavior, offering insight and strategies to support both parents and children. Over her decades as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke has routinely counseled distraught parents who struggle to manage their children`s challenging, sometimes oppositional behaviors. These families are understandably focused on correcting or improving a child`s lack of compliance, emotional outbursts, tantrums, and other `out of control` behavior. But, as she has shared with these families, a perspective shift is needed. Behavior, no matter how challenging, is not the problem but a symptom; a clue about what is happening in a child`s unique physiologic makeup. In Brain-Body Parenting, Dr. Delahooke offers a radical new approach to parenting based on her clinical experience as well as the most recent research in neuroscience and child psychology. Instead of a `top-down` approach to behavior that focuses on the thinking brain, she calls for a `bottom-up` approach that considers the essential role of the entire nervous system, which produces children`s feelings and behaviors. When we begin to understand the biology beneath the behavior, suggests Dr. Delahooke, we give our children the resources they need to grow and thrive--and we give ourselves the gift of a happier, more connected relationship with them. Brain-Body Parenting empowers parents with tools to help their children develop self-regulation skills while also encouraging parental self-care, which is crucial for parents to have the capacity to provide the essential `co-regulation` children need. When parents shift from trying to secure compliance to supporting connection and balance in the body and mind, they unlock a deeper understanding of their child, encouraging calmer behavior, more harmonious family dynamics, and increased resilience.