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If you are pregnant or planning a family, I thoroughly recommend this book, which accessibly presents,the latest in research concerning the development of intelligence, happiness, and good behavior in children.

What you do right now-before pregnancy, during pregnancy, and through the first five years-will affect your children for the rest of their lives.īrain Rules for Baby is an indispensable guide.

The best predictor of academic performance is not IQ.

Praising effort is better than praising intelligence.

Pursuing your child’s intellectual success at the expense of his happiness achieves neither.

Your child’s ability to relate to others predicts her future math performance.

Why men should do more household choresWhat you do when emotions run hot affects how your child turns out.

Through fascinating and funny stories, Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and dad, unravels how a child’s brain develops-and what you can do to optimize it.You will view your children-and how to raise them-in a whole new light. Just one of the surprises: The best way to get your children into the college of their choice? Teach them impulse control.īrain Rules for Baby bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice.

This book is destined to revolutionize parenting. Now, in Brain Rules for Baby, he shares what the latest science says about how to raise smart and happy children from zero to 5. John Medina told us how our brains really work-and why we ought to redesign our workplaces and schools. In his New York Times best seller Brain Rules, Dr. Parents with grown children sometimes seem satisfied, sometimes regretful a few even look guilty.What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know.

Pregnant couples in the audience become concerned, then start furiously scribbling down notes, often talking in excited whispers to their neighbors. Whenever I lecture on the extraordinary mental life of the developing fetus, I can almost feel a wave of panic ripple across the room. I could see the questioning look in their eyes. I remember this being a funny moment we had a good laugh. him smart? My belly is really sore, and I don’t like it.” Maybe we could teach him to tap back!” The wife interjected, “Will that make. He wants me to start tapping messages into the kid’s brain, so the little guy will be smart. Is that a good thing?” She looked puzzled. “He told my husband that he should start tapping on my belly.

“My father is a ham radio operator, the wife said. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:Ī woman and her husband came up to me afterward, looking anxious. What reading level is Brain Rules for Baby book?