Comments on: Appreciating Exceptional Brains http://committedparent.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/appreciating-exceptional-brains/ Translating social neuroscience to help parents raise kids we can live with and we're crazy about~ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:51:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: ashley http://committedparent.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/appreciating-exceptional-brains/#comment-578 ashley Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:14:02 +0000 http://committedparent.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-578 Should children be taught about the possibility for learning to deeply listen to their bodies and honoring what they hear? Absolutely, I think so! I also wonder how we would 'assess', inquire and discover, invite children into opportunities where they are able to share what their inner life and process is.... and thus illustrate for the caregivers in their life that they have some of these abilities. To know how a child experiences the world and then to be able to support them in really optimizing on those traveled pathways can help so much in building a strong sense of self. And my how it would continue to teach us in the infinite array of what's possible on this human journey. thanks for keeping me thinking! Should children be taught about the possibility for learning to deeply listen to their bodies and honoring what they hear?

Absolutely, I think so!

I also wonder how we would ‘assess’, inquire and discover, invite children into opportunities where they are able to share what their inner life and process is…. and thus illustrate for the caregivers in their life that they have some of these abilities. To know how a child experiences the world and then to be able to support them in really optimizing on those traveled pathways can help so much in building a strong sense of self. And my how it would continue to teach us in the infinite array of what’s possible on this human journey.

thanks for keeping me thinking!

]]> By: Ryan Rominger http://committedparent.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/appreciating-exceptional-brains/#comment-499 Ryan Rominger Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:19:02 +0000 http://committedparent.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-499 HI Mark, Loved the stories of exceptional brains and exceptional people. I'd love to hear more stories like these, especially of children. It is encouraging and reminds me of the amazing and seemingly boundless possibilities that my own children might be capable of. It also encourages me to use a bit more of my own energy and brain (mind/body/spirit). ~R HI Mark,
Loved the stories of exceptional brains and exceptional people. I’d love to hear more stories like these, especially of children. It is encouraging and reminds me of the amazing and seemingly boundless possibilities that my own children might be capable of. It also encourages me to use a bit more of my own energy and brain (mind/body/spirit).
~R

]]> By: RoseWorkStudios http://committedparent.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/appreciating-exceptional-brains/#comment-497 RoseWorkStudios Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:50:55 +0000 http://committedparent.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-497 Hey, if only we could throw a handful of fertilizer on the kids, followed by a brisk shower from the garden hose ... might we grow phenomenal kids like we can grow flowers? To take this metaphor further, if a flower becomes what it was "destined" to become, beginning as a seed (or bulb, or tuber, or...), it can achieve its own perfection under ideal conditions of light, water, food, attention. Does each child come into the world in a unique package that can likewise flower into its fullness under ideal nurturing conditions, wilting and fading under sub-optimal ones? Your brain is the very best it can be given your original DNA "seed" and environmental conditions ... not to be compared against Stephen Hawking or Sri Chinmoy. We are all benefitting from your slightly bent but still brilliant brain, Dr.B. Now, get out there and chop some wood!! --M. Hey, if only we could throw a handful of fertilizer on the kids, followed by a brisk shower from the garden hose … might we grow phenomenal kids like we can grow flowers?

To take this metaphor further, if a flower becomes what it was “destined” to become, beginning as a seed (or bulb, or tuber, or…), it can achieve its own perfection under ideal conditions of light, water, food, attention. Does each child come into the world in a unique package that can likewise flower into its fullness under ideal nurturing conditions, wilting and fading under sub-optimal ones? Your brain is the very best it can be given your original DNA “seed” and environmental conditions … not to be compared against Stephen Hawking or Sri Chinmoy.

We are all benefitting from your slightly bent but still brilliant brain, Dr.B.

Now, get out there and chop some wood!!

–M.

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