Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World by Katharine Beals

Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World by Katharine Beals

Does your child:

- Have impressive intellectual abilities but seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with other children?
- Have deep, all-absorbing interests or seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of certain subjects?
- Bring home mediocre report cards, or seem disengaged at school, despite his or her obvious intelligence?

If you answered yes to these questions, this book is for you. Author Katharine Beals uses the term left-brain to describe a type of child whose talents and inclinations lean heavily toward the logical, linear, analytical, and introverted side of the human psyche, as opposed to the right brain, a term often associated with our emotional, holistic, intuitive, and extroverted side.

Drawing on her research and interviews with parents and children, Beals helps parents to discover if they are raising a left-brain child, and she offers practical strategies for nurturing and supporting this type of child at school and at home. Beals also advises parents in how best to advocate for their children in today's schools, which can be baffled by and unsupportive of left-brain learning styles.

Katharine Beals, PhD, is an educator and the mother of three left-brain children. A former public school teacher, she is a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Her writing on parenting has appeared in Mothering magazine and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She lives in Philadelphia. For more information, visit www.katharinebeals.com.

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ISBN 13	9781590306505
ISBN 10	1590306503
Title	Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World
Author	Katharine Beals
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	2009-09-29
Number of pages	240
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