The Science of Parenting

The Science of Parenting:  How today’s brain research can help you raise happy, emotionally balanced children. 
Author: Margot Sunderland.  DK Publishing Inc. 2006

This is a wonderful book that parents and professionals should enjoy reading either cover to cover or dipping into as needed.  Packed with photos & laid out in multiple formats, it provides advice to parents supported by brain research, personal case studies and invitations for reflections on how they are doing as parents.  Key areas covered include crying and separations, sleep and bedtimes, discipline, coping with trying times, and helping a child become socially intelligent.  As world renowned expert on emotional development Jaak Panksepp says in the forward, “This superb manual for child rearing describes how healthy minds emerge from emotionally well-fertilized brains”.   I could not agree more. 
Dr. Susan Foster-Cohen, Brainwave Trust presenter.