The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

by Daniel J. Siegel

That’s what integration does: it coordinates and balances the separate regions of the brain that it links together. It’s easy to see when our kids aren’t integrated—they become overwhelmed by their emotions, confused and chaotic. They can’t respond calmly and capably to the situation at hand. Tantrums, meltdowns, aggression, and most of the other challenging experiences of parenting—and life—are a result of a loss of integration, also known as dis-integration.

This! - Every parent from the generation before that thinks being empathetic means being too soft. Simply not true, and this highlight explains that perfectly. If we would give our spouse, friends, parents the benefit of the doubt, we should give our kids the benefit of the doubt and here is why!