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The Yes Brain Child

Help Your Child be More Resilient, Independent and Creative

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The Yes Brain Child

By: Ph.D. Tina Payne Bryson, Dr. Daniel J. Siegel
Narrated by: Dr. Daniel J Siegel, Ph.D. Tina Payne Bryson
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From the bestselling parenting experts behind The Whole-Brain Child comes a highly successful plan for helping your child become more independent and resilient.

Children can often act out or shut down when faced with a setback or a tricky issue like homework, food or screen time. This is what acclaimed parenting experts Dr Siegel and Dr Bryson call the ‘No Brain’ response. But you can help your child develop the ability to cope, solve their own problems and thrive by nurturing their ‘Yes Brain’.

Drawing on their successful work with thousands of parents and children from all backgrounds, Dr Siegel and Dr Bryson provide the advice, tools and activities to help parents with children of all ages.

This is what the ‘Yes Brain’ approach looks like in action:
*A 5-year-old boy thinks about his first day at school and says, ‘I’m nervous but I’ll give it a try.’
*An 8 year-old girl says, ‘I’d like to join the football team, even though none of my friends like football.’
*A 14 year-old boy looks at a test he’s earned a D- for and says, ‘That’s not the mark I wanted but it’s not the end of the world. I’ll ask the teacher how I can improve.’

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Daniel J Siegel, 2018 Tina Payne Bryson (P)2018 Simon & Schuster UK
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‘This unique book shows us how to help our children embrace life with all of its challenges. It’s a treasure chest of parenting insights and techniques’

(Carol Dweck, bestselling author of Mindset)

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Another simple & effective parenting guide book

Daniel & Tina's books give a thorough understanding of kids brains & their development. It allows a deep understanding of their minds & emotions. It gives an understanding of how to help kids regulate their emotions & develop mindsight. It gives you a better understanding of your children, to allow a deeper connection & more empathy. Basically, it is a guide for happier & mentally healthier kids, & thus parents. Thanks so much for all that you write. I love all your books Daniel & Tina. I look forward to more.

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A must read

Such an incredible book. Really compliments their other books well. I shed a tear knowing a never received any of the parenting perspectives and techniques within, but feel optimistic knowing it’s never too late. Thank you 🙏

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AMAZING

I am a parenting book junkie and this is by far the best book I have listened to or read yet. It is like the bible of parenting books.
really easy to listen to and the pdf attachment that comes with is really amazing too.
I will listen to this one again and again.

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Insightful and educational - will refer to this book often

I really like how insightful this book is. I like that, although they go into some detail to explain the science behind the inner workings of a child’s brain, it’s not difficult to understand or overly science-y. I started implementing green zone strategies also immediately and

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Definitely recommend

As usual, the authors are engaging, easy to listen to and the content is relevant and helpful. Great practical examples for me as a parent. Highly recommend

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Fantastic and informative

So many great tips for helping my child have a yes brain. Every parent should hear this audiobook.

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Sounds like the strategies should work I can’t wait to try

This book is just what I needed to hear.sounds like the suggestions are simple enough

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Wonderful tips for every loving parent

Sometimes it’s good to understand the chemistry of what’s going on when little people are having a tough time and in a ‘no brain’ state. Understanding how to cultivate a ‘yes brain’ response will help your child, you and future generations. Let’s become a Yes Brain Society!

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It was good I feel like they had some great points but a lot of meandering around it these books could be 2 hours honestly

I feel this is an issue prevalent in this field the go on and on unnecessarily and they could make clear simple points with examples straight away but there’s hours of my life wasted on nonsense here

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A little brief. Many references to other works.

Some good concepts here, but I was hoping for a little more substance. I feel like some of this would be better served as being a segment in a larger book, perhaps also combining other referenced works.

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