Brain-Based Parenting Quotes

“Mutual defensiveness moves parents and children away from intersubjective experience and joint influence and into a desire to gain control of the situation. To”
― Daniel A. Hughes, Brain-Based Parenting: The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment

“These growth-suppressing relational dynamics ramp up the stress and defense systems—a brain pattern that”
― Daniel A. Hughes, Brain-Based Parenting: The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment

“The limbic system is essentially devoted to moving us rapidly toward or away from things in life that are relevant to our survival.”
― Daniel A. Hughes, Brain-Based Parenting: The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment

“Becoming familiar with your amygdala and the kinds of things it reacts to in life is an important part of learning to regulate your own stress and manage your tendencies to approach and avoid things in your life, including your children.”
― Daniel A. Hughes, Brain-Based Parenting: The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment