

Instead a found a fluffy, meandering, book which only directly connected to the adolescent brain about 25% of the time. My expectation was that this would be a book that would discuss scientific principles about the teenage brain. Which unfortunately, they are not getting in our modern culture. There are many things that he says that i agree with, one of the most important is the fact that teenagers (both male & female) needs some sort of rites of passage into adulthood. Performance wasn't horrible, just repetitive nature of the whole work was unnecessary.ĭo you think Brainstorm needs a follow-up book? Why or why not? Siegel’s performance would you have changed? Not that I'm against meditation, but his version is very simplistic and can't imagine the teenagers that I'm around giving it much respect as it lacks any substance. Siegel's own brand of Mindsight Meditation. I picked this book to learn about the teenage brain, not Dr. No, as with the reviews of many of Daniel Siegel's other books, the actual usable information that was given could have been given in 1 chapter. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I Really Wanted This Book To Be Good, But.

In this groundbreaking audiobook, Siegel offers teens and parents a road map for understanding the adolescent mind that will help families not just survive but also thrive through the “teenage years” and beyond. Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, he 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. According to Siegel, during adolescence we learn important skills, such as how to leave home and enter the larger world, how to connect deeply with others, and how to safely experiment and take risks, thereby creating strategies for dealing with the world’s increasingly complex problems.Siegel presents listeners with an inside-out approach to focusing on how brain development affects our behavior and relationships. In Brainstorm, the renowned psychiatrist and bestselling author of Parenting from the Inside Out, The Whole-Brain Child, and Mindsight, 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 - to reveal how it is in fact a vital time in our lives in terms of charting the course for the adults we ultimately become. Between the ages of twelve and twenty-four, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging ways.
