Quotes About Growth

As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well. That means that integrating and cultivating your own brain is one of the most loving and generous gifts you can give your children.

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However, if we truly love our kids and want what's best for them, we need to be able to tolerate the tension and discomfort they (and we) may experience when we set a limit. We want to say yes to our children as often as possible, but sometimes saying no is the most loving thing we can do.

You're probably not going to enjoy discipline, or look forward to future meltdowns. But when you realize that these "misbehavior moments" aren't just miserable experiences to endure, but actually opportunities for knowledge and growth, you can reframe the whole experience and recognize it as a chance to build the brain and create something meaningful and significant in your child's life.

Pero los hallazgos en distintas áreas de la psicología del desarrollo sugieren que todo lo que nos sucede –la música que oímos, las personas a las que queremos, los libros que leemos, la clase de disciplina que recibimos, las emociones que sentimos– tiene una gran influencia en el desarrollo de nuestro cerebro.

recae en ti la responsabilidad de aprender a ofrecer tu presencia de formas que te empoderen en grado sumo a ti como progenitor y fomenten en tu hijo la resiliencia y la fortaleza. Es este poder de la presencia lo que nos permite crear una mente empoderada para nuestros hijos… incluso si metemos la pata con regularidad.

las experiencias que proporciones en el contexto de la relación con tu hijo moldearán literalmente la estructura física de su cerebro.

This is the way we stimulate neuronal activation and growth—how we SNAG the brain toward a more vertically integrated state as we connect body to cortex with interoception. The more we focus our attention toward bodily sensations within our subjective experience in awareness, the more we activate the physical correlate of insula activation and subsequent growth. As

When we become parents we are given an incredible opportunity to grow as individuals because we ourselves are put back into an intimate parent-child relationship, this time in a different role.

Logic, responsibilities, and time don't exist for them yet. But when a toddler begins asking "Why?" all the time, you know that the left brain is beginning to really kick in.

Aborda el mundo desde lo que hemos llamado un cerebro afirmativo, interactuando con nuevas oportunidades y retos desde una postura abierta, curiosa y receptiva, en lugar de rígida, temerosa y reactiva.

Recuerda: la clave está en reparar, reparar, reparar. No existe la paternidad perfecta.

John O'Donohue, captured the essence of this emergent flow when he said that he'd love to live like a river, carried by the surprise of his own unfolding.

We can likely grow those soothing fibers that extend from the prefrontal upstairs brain into the downstairs brain.

Nadie puede ejercer la paternidad sin cometer errores.

Sadly, many of us learn to be wary of others, and even of our own inner life, and the resulting prison of our own mental adaptations to survive creates a belief that we are helpless to make a change.

What Teresa needed was to shift from being reactive to becoming receptive

develop the ability to live with balance, to face adversity with resilience, to

Ser padres conscientes. Un mejor conocimiento de nosotros mismos contribuye a un desarrollo integral de nuestros hijos, escrito en colaboración con Mary Hartzell.

Sometimes we need to name it to tame it, to look head-on into the plateaus and peaks of life and loosen their rigid hold as we soften the peaks, broaden our plateaus and relax back into

los momentos en que sólo intentas sobrevivir en realidad son oportunidades para ayudar a tu hijo a progresar.

Businesses always have competitors nipping at their heels. Historically, cities have not viewed themselves as subject to that same type of competition. But that's wrong.

My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.

I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.