Quotes About Learning

Rather than trying to shelter our children from life's inevitable difficulties, we can help them integrate those experiences into their understanding of the world and learn from them. How our kids make sense of their young lives is not only about what happens to them but also about how their parents, teachers, and other caregivers respond.

instead of a time-out, you might ask her to practice handling a situation differently. If she's being disrespectful in her tone or words, you can have her try it again and communicate what she's saying respectfully. If she's been mean to her brother, you might ask her to find three kind things to do for him before bedtime. That way, the repeated experience of positive behavior begins to get wired in her brain. (Again,

As you learn about the brain and consider all of the information we're offering here, don't forget about the simple and the obvious, the little things you already know. Common sense can take you a long way.

experiences actually change the physical structure of the brain.

When your child is disrespectful and talks back to you, when you are asked to come in for a meeting with the principal, when you find crayon scribbles all over your wall: these are survive moments, no question about it. But at the same time, they are opportunities—even gifts—because a survive moment is also a thrive moment, where the important, meaningful work of parenting takes place.

NUESTRA DISCIPLINA SE BASA EN EL CASTIGO Y NO EN LA ENSEÑANZA El propósito de la disciplina no es asegurarnos de que cada infracción tenga su correspondiente castigo. El objetivo real es enseñar a los niños a vivir bien en el mundo. Sin

Como padres, estamos programados para intentar proteger a nuestros hijos de todo sufrimiento y dolor, pero en realidad eso es imposible. Nuestros hijos se caerán, se sentirán heridos y sufrirán miedo, tristeza y enfado. De hecho, a menudo estas experiencias difíciles son las que les permiten crecer y descubrir el mundo.

When we teach mindsight, we take moments of conflict and transform them into opportunities for learning, skill building, and brain development

The drive to understand why things happen to us is so strong that the brain will continue to try making sense of an experience until it succeeds. As parents, we can help this process along through storytelling.

El ejercicio aeróbico no sólo es beneficioso para los sistemas cardiovascular y músculo-esquelético, sino también para el sistema nervioso. Aprendemos con más eficacia cuando estamos activos físicamente.

And remember that just by talking about the mind, you help develop it.

This Yes Brain mindset is what we want for our kids, so that they learn to view obstacles and new experiences not as paralyzing impediments but simply as challenges to be faced and overcome and learned from.

In terms of development, very young children are right-hemisphere dominant, especially during their first three years.

You can do your kids a lot of good simply by asking, "What are some ideas you have to make it better and solve this problem?" Given the chance once they're calm, kids will usually do the right thing, and learn in the process.

Curiosity is the cornerstone of effective discipline. Before

No existe una forma de criar a los hijos libre de defectos.

even small children—as young as four or five—really can understand some important basics about the way the brain works, and in turn understand themselves and their behavior and feelings in new and more insightful ways.

Así ampliamos su zona verde: enseñándoles con cariño que pueden frustrarse y fracasar y que superar la frustración y el fracaso los hará más fuertes y más sabios.

Debemos procurar que nuestros hijos, además de sentirse seguros y vistos, se sientan consolados en sus horas más difíciles. Eso no significa –ni mucho menos– que los rescatemos de toda situación dolorosa e incómoda. Es un hecho que a menudo cuando más aprenden y maduran

Right now, your child's brain is constantly being wired and rewired, and the experiences you provide will go a long way toward determining the structure of her brain.

What molds our brain? Experience. Even into old age, our experiences actually change the physical structure of the brain.

Neurons that fire together wire together, changing the changeable brain.

descubrimiento de que el cerebro en realidad es «dúctil», o moldeable. Eso significa que el cerebro cambia físicamente a lo largo de toda nuestra vida, y no sólo en la infancia, como antes suponíamos.

music we hear, the people we love, the books we read, the kind of discipline we receive, the emotions we feel—profoundly affects the way our brain develops.