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"Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids


From a leading child psychologist comes this groundbreaking new understanding of children 8217 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 8217 s challenging, sometimes oppositional behaviors. These families are understandably focused on correcting or improving a child 8217 s lack of compliance, emotional outbursts, tantrums, and other out of control 8221 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 8217 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 8221 approach to
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