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    Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
    Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
    Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
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    Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

    By John Medina

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    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.

    In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really workand why we ought to redesign our workplaces and schools. Now, in Brain Rules for Baby, he shares what the latest science says about how to raise smart and happy children from zero to five. This book is destined to revolutionize parenting. Just one of the surprises: The best way to get your children into the college of their choice? Teach them impulse control.

    Brain Rules for Baby bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice. 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 childrenand how to raise themin a whole new light. You’ll learn:

    Where nature ends and nurture begins
    Why men should do more household chores
    What you do when emotions run hot affects how
    your baby turns out, because babies need to feel safe
    above all
    TV is harmful for children under 2
    Your child’s ability to relate to others predicts her
    future math performance
    Smart and happy are inseparable. Pursuing your child’s
    intellectual success at the expense of his happiness
    achieves neither
    Praising effort is better than praising intelligence
    The best predictor of academic performance is not
    IQ. It’s self-control
    What you do right nowbefore pregnancy, during pregnancy, and through the first five yearswill affect your children for the rest of their lives. Brain Rules for Baby is an indispensable guide.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPear Press
    Release dateApr 22, 2014
    ISBN9780983263395
    Author

    John Medina

    Dr John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist, has had a lifelong fascination with how the mind reacts to and organises information. He is the author of the internationally bestselling works Brain Rules, Brain Rules for Baby, and Brain Rules for Ageing Well. Medina is an affiliate professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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    • 4/5
      Fascinating! A great book for those laymen (like moi) interested in Brain science and the implications on learning. The chapters on music and gender are especially good.
    • 4/5
      My advisor for grad school gave me this book as a graduation present. As a researcher, I have read about many of these studies but it was still interesting and engaging. I highly recommend it.
    • 5/5
      An amazing book on the brain. The book is highly readable and interesting.
    • 3/5
      Interesting, useful, practical.
    • 4/5
      An unusual book - not exactly pop science, not exactly self-help, not business, yet it has some of the flavor of all three. There is a companion web site, and at times you get the sense that this material would work better in a different format or combination of formats - and maybe that's what the web site helps accomplish. Since a couple of the "Rules" are "vision trumps all other senses" and "we don't pay attention to boring things", a book with no pictures seems a bit incongruous. And the rules are not prescriptive, but rather suggestive. Medina readily admits, maybe too readily, that almost all of these rules need more research. So, what are we to do with these rules. Maybe to do the "exploration" that is the basis of rule 12 and find out for ourselves.
    • 5/5
      Wonderfully thorough and accessible! Medina presents complicated data and concepts in an engaging manner and supports his ideas with examples and stories designed to maximize recall. I loved reading this book and anticipate that I'll be referencing it often!
    • 4/5
      I learned about this book from Garr Reynolds' website. Medina's storytelling approach worked well for me & many of the principles are relevant to my work. Like some other reviewers, I'd like to know more about the science behind the stories.
    • 4/5
      Excellent, down to earth way that we can make simple Life Hacks with discoveries regarding how the Brain works. Best tips are - exercise is crucial!! naps are important for creativity and high Brain functioning; teaching and probably also preaching should only last for 10min increments; and lastly what we smell while learning can greatly enhance our retention and learning speed. Medina's downside is he breaks down things so much that it lack an air of academic rigor. If Brain Rules could be combined with Brain Fix you'd have a masterpiece.
    • 4/5
      This is a great book. It combines brain science with evolution, how people learn and the stupidities of how we teach. It took me a long time to actually read, but in the process I gave two presentations on the basic principles and gifted the book to a couple of different people.

      I think it is a good book to read for many reasons:
      -understanding how your children are developing
      -understanding how to approach people and how their brain affects their reaction
      -understanding the basic way your brain works so that you can leverage that knowledge
      etc.

      The above, of course, assumes that what the book says is correct. I choose to think it is and think that the concepts it provides can be very useful in managing staff and working with people in general.
    • 4/5
      Short, but informative and engaging. I appreciate that Medina explains the biology clearly, tries not to generalize too much (even the "principles" of the title are more suggestions and ideas for future research), and emphasizes that there is so much about the brain that we still don't understand. This would be too basic for those who already know some neuroscience, but for me it was about right.
    • 4/5
      I learned about this book from Garr Reynolds' website. Medina's storytelling approach worked well for me & many of the principles are relevant to my work. Like some other reviewers, I'd like to know more about the science behind the stories.
    • 3/5
      I'd rate this a 3.5I found it an interesting and educational read. I liked how the book was organized and how it was explained in terms I understood.Many of the principles, to me, felt rather self-explanatory but at the same time they were put in way that told me things I didn't know about the topic.I enjoyed reading it.
    • 4/5
      A very humorus read about our brains!
    • 4/5
      Briliant. I use stuff from this every day (that I remember to). I read about half of this then left it for a while then read a chapter that I was most interested in then I re-read the whole.
    • 5/5
      Brain Rules is an excellent overview of some key principles to optimize your brain's performance. Medina does a great job of mixing the science behind how your brain works with practical takeaways. While there is a lot of science discussed, Medina manages to present the information in a very engaging and easily digestible format.There are so many things we should be doing to optimize our cognitive abilities at work and in the classroom that are currently being ignored for the sake of tradition. The adjustments sometimes sound fairly radical (Medina proposes that companies should block out 1/2 hour each day for employees to nap for example) but they are also fairly simple to execute, and well supported by scientific evidence of their potential impact.This should be a must read for anyone in business or education.
    • 5/5
      Learned to take care of baby.
      Highly Recommend for new parent.
    • 5/5
      Love the book! Very interesting and informative!
      Definitely a must-read for every parent!
    • 4/5
      Good highly readable reference to the latest in brain research. Well worth the read, even you won't remember all 12 principles later. (And there is probably a principle in the book that would explain why.)
    • 5/5
      This book is a guide to the basics of baby's brain development. It includes recent case studies of infant psychology and promotes various other books with further information about certain aspects of baby's growth.
    • 4/5
      Very good book for parenting and has a lot of great practical tips in the end of the book.
    • 4/5
      An interesting basic overview of what we currently know about how the brain processes information and learns.

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    • 5/5
      Although the brain often seems to be the most overlooked tool in trainer-teacher-learners' toolkits, great writers like developmental molecular biologist John Medina are doing a lot to move us past that that oversight through books like "Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School." Medina is never less than completely engaging, and his 12 rules about how the brain functions in learning are drawn from well-documented research, his own very funny observations, and his continual call for more research to help fill in the numerous gaps we still have in our knowledge: "This book is a call for research simply because we don't know enough to be prescriptive," he disarmingly admits (p. 4). Among the rules he documents: exercise boosts brain power; every brain is wired differently; stressed brains don't learn well; and stimulate more of the senses simultaneously to stimulate more effective learning. This is not a book for those comfortable with the status quo; in fact, Medina clearly expects us to approach his work with minds completely open to ideas that might initially strike us as ludicrous. And he encourages us to imagine (and create) learning spaces that inspire and sustain curiosity as opposed to the age-old model of lecture halls where learning is an instructor-centric endeavor.

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