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

Cutting edge scientific research has shown that exposure to the right kind of environment during the first years of life actually affects the physical structure of a child's brain, vastly increasing the number of neuron branches—the "magic trees of the mind"—that help us to learn, think, and remember. At each stage of development, the brain's ability to gain new skills and process information is refined.

As a leading researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, Marion Diamond has been a pioneer in this field of research. Now, Diamond and award-winning science writer Janet Hopson present a comprehensive enrichment program designed to help parents prepare their children for a lifetime of learning.

• Teaching with the Brain in Mind, Revised 2nd Edition
• The Human Brain Coloring Book (Coloring Concepts Series)
• Your Child's Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence
• Enriching Heredity: The Impact of the Environment on the Anatomy of the Brain
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
• Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less
• Play at the Center of the Curriculum (6th Edition)
• No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
• Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play (The MIT Press)
• The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need from Grownups