Parenting with Brains

The human brain continues to grow, develop, and adapt to the environment throughout our lives — not just when we are babies.  As parents interact with their children, providing not only food and safety but predictable emotional nurturing the resulting attachment helps the brain to organise and begin to regulate and make sense of the complex world around it.

Understanding these two concepts can have a dramatic effect on how we parent.  To learn more about my thoughts on this topic, you can check out my guest blog on Penguin.com

"Connected Parenting advises us not just how to parent, but—far more important—who to be as parents. The therapeutic methods suggested by Jennifer Kolari are based not on simple-minded behavioural solutions, but on building warm, nurturing relationships with our children, with insight and compassion not only for their little flaws, but also for our own larger ones."
—Gabor Maté, M.D.

"A must read for parents, educators, and any other adults who want to connect in a deeply caring and positive way with the children in their lives."
—Barbara Coloroso