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A six-time award winner, The Owner's Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain is the exciting follow-up to Your Fantastic Elastic Brain! This adolescent brain development story is the perfect growth mindset book for teens. Let's pop open the hood and learn a little about what makes this (human) engine run in this informative puberty book for boys and girls ages 9-14! As a teenager, you think you know everything about your brain... Think again! Every creature experiences adolescence. It's during this time when your brain is in its second decade, that you have the opportunity to blaze your own trail by shaping your brain, building its strengths, and avoiding dangers with the decisions you make. Your brain is an amazing vehicle that will take you through every one of your life's experiences. Wouldn't it be good to have an owner's manual? Packed with the goods on glia and the news about neurons, The Owner's Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain is a fantastic read for testing your brain power and understanding it's OK to make mistakes, they'll make you stronger, if you use them as an opportunity to learn. It's all about training your brain to help you become the very best version of yourself! The Owner's Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain has received several awards including The Academics' Choice "Smart Book" Award; The PubWest Book Design Gold Award; The Mom's Choice Gold Award; The Moonbeam Silver Award; The Nautilus Silver Award; and The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award. Fuel up your vehicle and let's start the drive to understanding your adolescent brain!
Go to sleep and grow your brain! During the day, your brain helps you do things like eat, walk, play with friends, and learn new things—and using your brain helps it stretch and get stronger. But did you know that you have the power to grow and train your brain just by going to sleep? In fact, while you're resting, your brain is doing some of its most important work! Learn about the important jobs your brain does at night like: Locking in what you learned during the day Resetting itself so that it's ready when you wake up Even taking a bath to make sure it's clean and healthy! Written by two brain experts, Good Night to Your Fantastic Elastic Brain is packed with fascinating science and fun facts that will have kids excited to get a good night's rest!
Did you know you can stretch and grow your own brain? Or that making mistakes is one of the best ways your brain learns? Just like how lifting weights helps your muscles get stronger, trying new things without giving up-like finding the courage to put your face in the water the first time you're at a pool-strengthens your brain. Next time, your brain will remind you that you overcame that fear, and you will be braver! As a consultant to schools worldwide on issues of brain development and gender equity, author JoAnn Deak, Ph.D., and illustrator Sarah Ackerley, have crafted a fun and engaging introduction to the anatomy and functions of the brain that will empower each young reader to S-T-R-E-T-C-H and grow their Fantastic, Elastic Brain!
Now available in paperback is a bold, fresh, and timely work that
"offers parents humor, understanding, parenting philosophy, and
well-founded pearls of wisdom." --Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.,
coauthor of Raising Cain
Mary Pipher told us about the problems girls face in Reviving Ophelia; now in Girls Will Be Girls, JoAnn Deak gives us the solutions. In a work thats as relevant and important as Raising Cain, Deak offers a comprehensive road map to the many emotional and physical challenges girls of all ages face in today's changing world. Renowned for her knowledge of what makes girls ages 6 to 16 tick, Deak brings together stories and lessons from more than 20 years as a school psychologist, and introduces original concepts as a framework to help parents better understand their daughters.
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