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Nurturing a Healthy Mind

Doing What Matters Most For Your Child's Developing Brain
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Nurturing a Healthy Mind explores how advances in brain research are reshaping parenting and education. It emphasises the profound influence of genetics, early life experiences, and environment on a child’s brain development. This accessible guide offers parents and caregivers practical insights to foster healthy minds during the crucial early years.
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Ideal for parents, early childhood educators, and caregivers seeking evidence-based strategies to support child development through the latest scientific understanding of the brain.

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'Nurturing a Healthy Mind' β€˜translates’ for parents what neuroscience is telling us about the development of a child’s mind from birth to pre-pubescence. Specifically, it details the development of the brain from infancy to the early school years and how this impacts on the everyday realities of raising healthy and happy children.

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Advances in technology and science have taught us a great deal, and Nurturing a Healthy Mind supports the growing consensus that research on brain development is relevant to parenting. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, parents and teachers are seeing the benefits of this research, with child-rearing and education being shaped by new understandings of the human brain.

It is becoming widely known that the interactions between our genetic makeup, early experiences, and environmental influences shape the architecture of the developing brain. As such, our understanding of the importance of the early years of life has, thankfully, received much greater attention and scrutiny.

We are witnessing a tsunami of research, in conjunction with well-informed individuals, looking to ensure that all children receive the attention they need in their earliest days of life. Nurturing a Healthy Mind, with its easy-to-understand format, gives parents and early caregivers a great opportunity to tap into this research and provide the best environment possible for healthy child development.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781921966026

Publisher: Exisle Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2012

Country: Australia

Imprint: Exisle Publishing

Illustration: 5 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 248

About the Author

Michael C. Nagel PhD teaches and researches in the areas of human development, educational psychology, behaviour and learning. Dr Nagel has written a number of books and articles related to neurological development in children and has delivered over 200 workshops and seminars for parents and teachers nationally and internationally. Dr Nagel is also a member of the prestigious International Neuropsychological Society.

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