Recently, I’ve spoken at several conferences around the country about mindfulness in adolescents, attachment in families, and bringing more awareness and compassion to our digital lives. One comment in particular that I made at each of these speaking engagements seemed to garner the most curiosity and attention. The statement is this: The self is not defined by the […]
The Self is Not Defined by the Boundaries of Our Skin Read More »
It’s not so easy being an adolescent these days. We become aware of the world around us, are flooded with input through digital media about our extended global family, and learn about the world’s intense and overwhelming problems. And even more, puberty’s onset is getting earlier, and the time between our childhood dependence and adult
Pruning, Myelination, and the Remodeling Adolescent Brain Read More »
Our modern culture encourages deeply pervasive myths about adolescence. Those myths we hear casually in repetition—that teens are driven mad by “raging hormones,” that as people they are “just immature and need to grow up,” or that their “undeveloped prefrontal cortex makes them undependable and moody”—are all misconceptions that not only imprison how we as adults see
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These days it’s hard to hang out with parents of teenagers without hearing disparaging comments about how digital devices are devouring our kids’ time and attention. Or how our driving adolescents are driving us mad when they text on the highway, risking life and limb for the sake of a quick LOL or WITW or OMG. All for the sake of
3 Steps to Disconnecting from Our Phones and Reconnecting with our Teens Read More »
In these fast and furious days of digital overload, we as parents often worry about our teenagers’ interactions with one another on social media. Who hasn’t seen a teenager deeply absorbed with a smartphone or breaking off a face-to-face conversation to take a picture for their friends on Snapchat? With heads down and screens lit
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Social media has a reputation for being nothing but trouble for teenagers. There are many upsides to social media, not least of which is that it provides a way for teens to connect with one another. What concerns me more than simply the time spent on screens is the time not spent in direct face-to-face connection.
Seven Signals You Can Send To Your Teen Right Now Instead of a Text Read More »
When I was a child, I used to marvel at the sound of the frogs in our neighborhood creek. Perched on the rocks, they would find each other and croak out an exhilarating symphony of amphibious songs. Meanwhile, their tadpole offspring swam in the cool flowing water below, their parents seemingly oblivious to their offsprings’
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Forbes by David DiSalvo The findings back up an assertion made by the progenitor and popularizer of Interpersonal Neurobiology, Dr. Daniel Siegel, who has convincingly argued that our minds are partly defined by their intersections with other minds. Read Article >>
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Education.com by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson Practical strategies for helping children integrate parts of the brain so they work well together as a coordinated whole – a whole brain. Read Article >>
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Psychology Today by Dr. David Rock Dr. Dan Siegel and Dr. David Rock got together and decided to create what they are calling the Healthy Mind Platter. This platter has seven essential mental activities necessary for optimum mental health in daily life. These seven daily activities make up the full set of ‘mental nutrients’ that
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Dalai Lama Center Daniel J. Siegel It was a packed house last night as Dr. Daniel Siegel visited Vancouver for Mindsight: Brain Science and Transformation for You and Your Relationships. Moderator Maria LeRose led an informal conversation with Dr. Siegel that touched on his beginnings in the medical field, his work with Mindsight and how
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