Brainstorm
The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
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3.7 • 43 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
In this New York Times–bestselling book, Dr. Daniel Siegel shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children’s lives into one of the most rewarding.
Between the ages of twelve and twenty-four, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging ways. In Brainstorm, Dr. Daniel Siegel busts a number of commonly held myths about adolescence—for example, that it is merely a stage of “immaturity” filled with often “crazy” behavior. According to Siegel, during adolescence we learn vital skills, such as how to leave home and enter the larger world, connect deeply with others, and safely experiment and take risks.
Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, Siegel explores exciting ways in which understanding how the brain functions can improve the lives of adolescents, making their relationships more fulfilling and less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide.
Customer Reviews
Anecdotal stories mixed with crude sketches undermines legitimacy of research and studies.
There are some books that are just work. I found this to be one of those. I constantly distracted myself with anything around to avoid another few pages of this book.
The author set up the book with a promise that it could be a resource for parents and teens alike. In the end, I don’t think it was either. I’m not sure if the incredibly rough stick figure drawings were supposed to be endearing, but they didn’t help illustrate the lesson and were ultimately a confusing distraction. I did however grow to look forward to them because I knew it would eat up another page and get me that much closer to the end of the book.
I can’t say I learned much from this book other than teens are people too and we don’t have as much impact on their outcome as parents as we think we do. I was hoping for more practical tools that I could apply as a parent, but in the end was left wondering how much time I wasted on this book.