Why We React, Re-Enact & Get Our Backs Up with Our Kids

and How We Can Train Our Brain to Parent in Our “Right Mind”






    

Create your parent-digm shift.

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THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON PARENTING

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Every time we put our palm to our forehead in exasperation, exhaustion, anxiety and stress, we don’t realize that we actually have our hand over a powerful part of our brain. The mid prefrontal cortex (a fancy phrase for the stuff behind your forehead) is an astounding place. When psychiatrist and brain scientist Dan Siegel talks about creating a integrated mind in his books Parenting from the Inside Out and Mindsight (January, 2010), he refers to 9 amazing functions of this area of the brain. If we know that attunement and empathy promote brain growth, we can use this crucial information to inform and guide our parenting. In this tele-class, we become aware of what is happening in our brain when we lose it, react, worry, and get caught in power struggles. How can knowing about how our brain works and thrives help us stay connected with ourselves and therefore our kids? How can it help us raise our kids to be who they are meant to be?

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Insight Intuition Morality Empathy Attunement Body regulation Emotional balance Ability to mitigate fear Ability to reflect before reacting
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