John Medina

Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded)

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
  • Oksana Stelmakhhas quoted4 years ago
    If you want a well-educated child, you must create an environment of safety.
  • Oksana Stelmakhhas quoted4 years ago
    If you want your kids to be happy, you will spend lots of time teaching them how and when this filtering should occur.
  • Oksana Stelmakhhas quoted4 years ago
    Because kids often express their emotions indirectly, you need to consider the environmental context before you attempt to decode your child’s behavior.
  • Oksana Stelmakhhas quoted4 years ago
    Young children may not be aware of the emotions they are experiencing. They may not yet understand the socially correct way to communicate them. The result is that your little one may act out in anger when he is actually sad, or she may just become grumpy for no apparent reason. Sometimes a single event will induce a mixture of emotions. These emotions and their attendant feelings can feel so big and so out of control that the kids become frightened on top of it, which only amplifies the effect.
  • Oksana Stelmakhhas quoted4 years ago
    When we scan our world, we tag certain items for further processing and leave other items alone. Emotions are the tags. Another way to think of emotions is like Post-it notes that cause the brain to pay attention to something.
  • Oksana Stelmakhhas quoted4 years ago
    You’re probably used to thinking of emotions as the same thing as feelings, but to the brain, they’re not
  • Oksana Stelmakhhas quoted4 years ago
    Individuals who are thoughtful, kind, sensitive, outward focused, accommodating, and forgiving have deeper, more lasting friendships—and lower divorce rates—than people who are moody, impulsive, rude, self-centered, inflexible, and vindictive.
  • Oksana Stelmakhhas quoted4 years ago
    how to raise happy kids. You will need to teach your children how to socialize effectively—how to make friends, how to keep friends—if you want them to be happy.
  • Oksana Stelmakhhas quoted4 years ago
    Money increases happiness only when it lifts people out of poverty
  • Oksana Stelmakhhas quoted4 years ago
    In addition to satisfying relationships, other behaviors that predict happiness include:

    • a steady dose of altruistic acts

    • making lists of things for which you are grateful, which generates feelings of happiness in the short term

    • cultivating a general “attitude of gratitude,” which generates feelings of happiness in the long term

    • sharing novel experiences with a loved one

    • deploying a ready “forgiveness reflex” when loved ones slight you
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)