Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence

This book clearly explains how neurons develop (the magic trees) and how I can help my child's brain grow with the appropriate stimuli, and help her reach her full potential. But most of all, this book helps me understand my child and what she's going thru, growing my patience and empathy for her as she reaches her "terrible twos."The authors present a lot of research studies and scientific data to back up their conclusions. It also contains an extensive list of toys, games, movies , and other stimuli appropriate for my child divided by age range. This is definitively a book I will be picking up at every stage and rereading over and over.If you are interested in understanding your child's mind, are not afraid of learning a little science jargon, and want to know about how to expose your child to enriching experiences that will grow him/her into loving, healthy adults, this is the book for you.

So far I've only read as far as I need to (i.e. about the first third of the book covering up to my daughter's age at this point). While the book is very informative, it is also fairly technical. Definitely not a simple read, not something I'd try to read a couple pages of here & there. I would recommend it for anyone who is looking for some pretty in depth and clinical information regarding child development. I will finish reading it over time, but there are other child development books that I can get through more quickly which I'm reading first.

The book is really tough going for the first +- 80 pages with the discussion centering around the anatomical structure of the brain and its development and was a little over my head. However, having said that, if you perservere, it is an excellent read and I found it hard to put down once it moved on. A tremendous amount of food for thought and a superb reference guide, full of recommendations and ideas on how to enrich your childs life. The author is an inspiration and I will definately refer back to this book for years to come. It really challenges parents to 'up their game' and understand the vital role they play in enriching and shaping the future of their child.

It explains why there should be no winning/losing in child sports, why you shouldn't tell your children "no" all the time, why you should move closer to Stanford University, what a 6 to 12 year old needs and why this time in their life is important, why your teens are crazy and what to do about it. O'and mainly it explains why "Boredom Kills" braincells, that is.Although I do have to mention...it's complex. It's not written for the simple minded or otherwise stated it'll go over some people's heads. I'm sure it comes in more simplified versions for the small minded.

but somewhat polemical. The information is, generally, very good. However, there are a number of positions taken on various topics which do not have rigorous support, which is somewhat disappointing -- since they tend to be in areas which are somewhat controversial. On the whole, I would recommend the book, but also would suggest a grain of salt to be taken with it.

"How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence..." is a title that made me think this book would be a guide to fostering creativity and intelligence in children. Unfortunately, the book seems to spend a lot less time on HOW to nurture intelligence, than it does WHY. I didn't need to be convinced, I was hoping for a roadmap of what to do when. This book discusses intelligence studies done with rats, and had detailed discussions of brain development, but I found relatively little information on HOW to translate these discussions to interaction with children. Disappointing.

I found this to be a little to clinical for me. Great for students or teachers.

I was recommended this book by my cousin. I also read all of the great reviews before I bought it. It was not what I expected. It didn't give many examples of things that you could do to nurture my child's intelligence, creativity or Heathy emotions as the title suggests. Most of the book is very scientific and just talks about how neurons work and the research the author had done. I didn't learn anything new.

I really wanted to love this book, but the science seemed very out of date. I assumed it was an updated version. Having read 'Welcome to Your Child's Brain', I just felt disappointed. The advice is too obvious. The gendered list of toys and activities is also out of date. I'd reccommend 'Pink Brain, Blue Brain' instead.

You need to read it. one of the best books.

Excellent

great

its too scientific and technical...good if someone wants to know the research behind the brain stimulation logic...but not helpful if someone is looking for ideas and concepts of brain nourishment....