Practical Parenting with IPNB in Mind with Tina Bryson

Providing support for parents so parents can create secure attachment for their children is one of GAINS' central values. Tina's regular column in the Quarterly, Practical Parenting with IPNB in Mind, offers brain-wise suggestions in language that can be useful for the parents among our members, as well as providing clincians and parenting coaches with ways to help moms and dads make practical use of the neuroscience of relationships. For the Winter 2007 Quarterly, Tina wrote "Transforming Moments: Creativity, Discipline, and Ten Bites of a Quesadilla," which talks about how changing our parental perspective can impact our children's brains.

From Tina's article...
"Recently, we were eating with my out-of-town in-laws at one of our favorite Mexican food restaurants. I noticed that our four-year-old Luke had left the table and was standing behind a pillar about ten feet away. As much as I love Luke, and as adorable as he is most of the time, when I saw his angry, defiant face coupled with his repeated tongue-thrusting aimed at our table, "adorable" wasn't the word that came to my mind. My in-laws and the diners at surrounding tables notcied and looked at my husband Scott and me to see how we were going to handle the situation."

Transforming Moments--click here for pdf