No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

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Siegel and Bryson redefine discipline as teaching rather than punishment, showing how a child's neurological development should guide parental responses to misbehavior. They provide a whole-brain framework for connecting emotionally with a child during moments of distress before redirecting behavior, turning disciplinary encounters into opportunities for brain development and growth.

Published:: 2014
Pages:: 288

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In this collection, No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind references 3 other books.

It draws on Emotional Intelligence, The Body Keeps the Score and Mindset.

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Siegel and Bryson extend Goleman's emotional intelligence research into the discipline context, arguing that attuning to a child's emotional state before correcting behavior builds the neural pathways for self-regulation

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Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

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Siegel and Bryson draw on the same neuroscience of trauma that van der Kolk documents in The Body Keeps the Score, explaining how punitive discipline can trigger a child's fight-flight-freeze response rather than engageing their learning brain

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The Body Keeps the Score

by Bessel van der Kolk

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Siegel and Bryson incorporate Dweck's growth mindset research to show parents how disciplinary moments can reinforce a child's belief that they can learn and improve rather than be defined by their mistakes

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Mindset

by Carol Dweck

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