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What No One Ever Told You About How Your Child's Brain Grows

FOR ALL CARING ADULTS

What you do every day with a child is shaping their developing brain in ways most caring adults were never shown. Dr. Lucinda Sisk, Yale Ph.D., brings the research to life in a way that is immediately useful for any parent, teacher, grandparent, or caregiver.

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Why the hard moments happen even when you are doing everything right

What is actually happening in a child's brain during the hard moments

Three adult practices that reach all the way down to the developing brain

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When a Child's Brain Is Growing, It Does Not Always Look That Way

The meltdowns, the shutdowns, the moments that seem to come from nowhere. These are often not setbacks. They are signs of a brain actively reorganizing and building new emotional circuits. Dr. Lucinda Sisk, developmental neuroscientist and Yale Ph.D., explains what this means for the children in your life and exactly what caring adults can do to support it.

What You Will Learn

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Why children's brains do not develop in a straight line and what that means for behavior

How your everyday interactions are literally wiring a child's brain for emotional health

How to respond to a child in ways their developing brain can actually receive

Three concrete strategies to foster emotional health grounded in brain development research

How to use ordinary moments to support a child's long term emotional well being

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Based on the research of Dr. Lucinda Sisk, Ph.D., Yale University, now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Lifespan, Informatics, and Neuroimaging Center.