{"id":4337,"date":"2023-06-20T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2023-06-20T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:07:38","slug":"the-yes-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/?p=4337","title":{"rendered":"Yes Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel J. Siegel, MD<br \/>Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a><\/a>Chapter 2: The Balanced Yes Brain<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.34-PM.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"799\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.34-PM.png 799w, http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.34-PM-300x253.png 300w, http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.34-PM-768x647.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a><\/a>&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a><\/a>Chapter 3: The Resilient Yes Brain<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The central lesson focuses on helping kids face tough situations and calm themselves down, so they don\u2019t become helpless in the face of their circumstances or emotions. You can let them know, in other words, that lots of life situations can be difficult, and that it\u2019s okay to feel challenged by what comes up, but that those difficulties can make us stronger. Here\u2019s a way to start the conversation:<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.39-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"857\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.39-PM.png 857w, http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.39-PM-300x257.png 300w, http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.39-PM-768x658.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a><\/a>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a><\/a>Chapter 4: The Insightful Yes Brain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Yes Brain Kids: Teach Your Kids About Insight<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One of the best gifts we can give our kids is to help them improve their ability to <em>recognize<\/em> when they\u2019re moving out of the green zone and do something about it before they lose control of their upstairs brain and begin to melt down or throw a tantrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.44-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"894\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.44-PM.png 894w, http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.44-PM-300x249.png 300w, http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.44-PM-768x637.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 894px) 100vw, 894px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a><\/a>&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a><\/a>Chapter 5: The Empathic Yes Brain<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Yes Brain Kids:<\/u><\/strong> In the other \u201cYes Brain Kids\u201d sections we\u2019ve talked a lot about paying attention to your own reactions, and what\u2019s going inside you. Now we want to talk about seeing what\u2019s going on inside someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.48-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"839\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.48-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.48-PM.png 839w, http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.48-PM-300x232.png 300w, http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.29.48-PM-768x595.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child Daniel J. Siegel, MDTina Payne Bryson, Ph.D. Chapter 2: The Balanced Yes Brain &nbsp; Chapter 3: The Resilient Yes Brain \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The central lesson focuses on helping kids face tough situations and calm themselves down, so they don\u2019t become helpless in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,252,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booknotes","category-family-parenting","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}