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Brain Rules for Baby

John Medina

What do we know for sure from brain science about raising a smart, happy, good child from pregnancy through age five?

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John Medina

Why read it

  • You will get practical answers to the questions parents keep asking, from happiness to marriage to school
  • You will know the few things in pregnancy, such as weight, food and stress, that help a baby's brain
  • You will see why warm face to face time with a young child matters more than screen time

Who it is for

  • An expecting parent sorting parenting myths from evidence
  • A new parent whose marriage feels strained
  • A grandparent helping to raise a small child

Contents

  1. brain rules
  2. introduction
  3. Too many myths
  4. What brain science can’t do
  5. Human behavior is complicated!
  6. Not just about babies but kids through age 5
  7. Seed and soil
  8. Why do we need parenting, anyway?
  9. Survival, first and foremost
  10. We are social beings
  11. A few notes before we begin
  12. pregnancy
  13. Quiet, please: Baby in progress
  14. The amazing pregaphone
  15. Let’s get it on
  16. When something goes wrong
  17. A delicate web of cells, crackling with electricity
  18. When can your baby hear you, smell you?
  19. The senses develop strategically
  20. Babies remember
  21. Touch: 4 weeks
  22. Sight: 4 weeks
  23. Hearing: 4 weeks
  24. Smell: 5 weeks
  25. Balance: 6 weeks
  26. Taste: 8 weeks
  27. A balancing act
  28. 4 things proven to help baby’s brain
  29. 1. Gain just the right weight
  30. 2. Eat just the right foods
  31. 3. Avoid too much stress
  32. 4. Exercise just the right amount
  33. Every little bit counts
  34. relationship
  35. Most marriages suffer
  36. Seeds of hope
  37. Babies seek safety above all
  38. Monkey see, monkey do
  39. Bonding with you provides safety
  40. How babies respond to stress
  41. What happens when you fight
  42. The four biggest reasons you’ll fight
  43. 1. Sleep loss
  44. 2. Social isolation
  45. 3. Unequal workload
  46. 4. Depression
  47. ‘Nobody told me it was going to be so hard’
  48. The first step is awareness
  49. What is obvious to you is obvious to you
  50. Would you win an empathy contest?
  51. Defining empathy
  52. Empathy works
  53. Make empathy a reflex: Two simple steps
  54. Prepare your relationship
  55. smart baby: seeds
  56. What a smart brain looks like
  57. The intelligence of IQ
  58. What does it mean to be smart?
  59. Mom’s beef stew: 7 ingredients of intelligence
  60. 2 basics: Memory and improvisation

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