14 - Understanding our children's brain development

Trusting Children Podcast

When talking about respectful parenting/ mindful parenting/ gentle parenting, we look at the whole child, we encourage parents to look at the big picture, beyond the moment, beyond the behaviour in that moment. I feel like we cannot talk about a holistic approach to parenting without having some understanding of how our children’s brain works.
In this episode I speak with Blanca Velasquez-Martin about brain development of young children, why it’s relevant to us as parents and what we can do to help this important part of our children’s bodies grow and develop. Knowing how our children’s brain is shaped through experiences, how it works and what it’s capable of while it is still developing can really help us gain a much clearer picture of our child’s behaviours, some of the reasons for them and begin to normalise certain things that children do. When we understand them better, we can have more empathy towards them, we can make more informed choices and decisions, and ultimately we can really nurture their development in a way that creates a more peaceful relationships within your home.
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