Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

In this groundbreaking book, the bestselling author of Parenting from the Inside Out and The Whole-Brain Child
shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental
periods in their children’s lives into one of the most rewarding.
Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in important and
often maddening ways. It’s no wonder that many parents approach their
child’s adolescence with fear and trepidation. According to renowned
neuropsychiatrist Daniel Siegel, however, if parents and teens can work
together to form a deeper understanding of the brain science behind all
the tumult, they will be able to turn conflict into connection and form a
deeper understanding of one another.
In Brainstorm, Siegel illuminates how brain development
affects teenagers’ behaviour and relationships. Drawing on important new
research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, he explores
exciting ways in which understanding how the teenage brain functions can
help parents make what is in fact an incredibly positive period of
growth, change, and experimentation in their children’s lives less
lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide.