All Aboard the Brain Train

By Dr. Linda Miles and Dr. Amy Bunger

Babies are born with unfinished brains. You can actually affect the physical structure of your childs brain. Babies come with basic parts but need parents to help them make sense of the world. Based upon research on neuroplasticity and mindfulness practices with children, the authors provide practical and fun ways to help route your childs brain toward calm, purpose-filled minds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524589592

Dr. Linda Miles

Dr. Linda Miles earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Florida State University and has worked in the mental health field for over thirty years as an award-winning psychotherapist, consultant, and professor. She has authored several books, including The New Marriage, chosen as a finalist for Forward Book of the Year Award. She has appeared on national radio and television, and her articles have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and Miami Herald.

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Copyright © 2017 by Dr. Linda Miles and Dr. Amy Bunger. 726840

ISBN:   Softcover           978-1-5245-8960-8

             Hardcover          978-1-5245-8961-5

             EBook                978-1-5245-8959-2

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 03/14/2017

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Contents

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

BUILDING STATIONS

DIRECTION AND STATIONS

PURPOSE

MINDFULNESS

PRACTICE BUILDING STATIONS

LAY TRACKS

A FOUNDATION OF LOVE

A ROADMAP TO THE DREAM

THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS

PRACTICE: LAY TRACKS

REROUTE-OVER-UNDER-AROUND-THROUGH

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

IN CASE OF TRAIN WRECKS

PACE THE TRAIN

PRACTICE REROUTE-OVER-UNDER-AROUND-THROUGH

MOMMY/DADDY AS ENGINEER

DEVELOPING NEW PATTERNS

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

FOLLOWING THE LEADER

PRACTICE MOMMY/DADDY AS ENGINEER

Conclusion

DEDICATION

To the youngest, Isaac and Bella,

and to Merritt, Drew, Bobby, Samantha,

Alexandra, Genevieve, Remington,

Noel, and Brandt,

who all grew up so fast.

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

….For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,

Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,

For life goes not backward nor tarries with