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This is the best book about kids I ever red and I doubt to find another one to dethrone it. Maybe another book of Tony’s 
I was pregnant in 3 or 4 months when my colleague Sabin talked to me about this book. First I was thinking: “Come’ on, I am just at the beginning of my pregnancy. I won’t start reading books about raising kids!” After some other months, when Nadia arrival was approaching and I become a little bit scared, I remembered Sabin’s advice and asked him to borrow me the book.
This is probably the first book writen from the baby’s point of view. A research work of more than 10 years done by Tony and his team made “Brain Child” beeing, from my perspective, a real “MUST to read” book for every person that decided to become a Parent.
On the foreword pages there is a letter that made me love this book and stimulated me to read it again and again:
“Hello Mum! Hello Dad!”
Brain Child is my book for you, written from my perspective – your future baby-to-be.
Brain Child is an Utopian book, written to describe everything I would ideally like in my upbringing to help me to develop full potential of my mind, body and spirit, in a way that makes life easier and happier for all of us.
I am sure you will heard that I, your baby, will own the most astonishingly complex yet compact piece of equipment ever developed by nature or humankind: my baby brain – a truly magical gift for both you and me. I will similarly own an astonishingly complex body with its extraordinary supernatural senses.
My book for you explains why each baby’s brain is such a magical gift, and what an important part you, my dear parents, have played and will continue to play in its development.
Most book on bringing up babies have focused on feeding the mouth. My book for you and me focuses on feeding the brain.
At my birth, that brain will already contain its full complement of brain cells: one million million (1,000,000,000,000). PLEASE, help me feed them well!
With love from
YOUR BRAIN CHILD”
Brain Child is a book that calls you back, especially because the author put at the end of each chapter Thinks for you to do as a parent.
The book has 6 main parts:
Part I – THE BRAIN
This part reveals to the readers what a “fabulous instrument” the human brain is and how it can be nurtured in order to do the most incredible things. Also you can start using Tony’s most popular thinking tool: Mind Mapping together with your kid.
Part II – UNIQUENESS
Reading this part of the book, any parent who will want to have or already has more than one kid will stop compare the kids, their abilities, their behaviours or way of thinking. Any parent will start to think that each child is UNIQUE and acknowledge that the comparison between them will bring only frustration to the kids.
Part III – BRAIN PRINCIPLES
Parents will find more information about the seven main brain principles that will guide your child in his/her life. So, you will find out that mimic is the first tool used by a child in learning process. Also it is totally wrong to think that mimicking or copying equals cheating, which is bad of course.
You will also learn to use the synergy or the Correct Formulae when talking with and about your child. Two examples of Incorrect Formula versus Correct Formula: “Thinking she is stupid => Thinking she is bright, Thinking that the child should be kept under control => Knowing that the child should be given as much freedom for learning and self-expression as possible”.
TEFCAS principle is explained.
T= Trial
E= Event
F= Feedback
C= Check
A= Adjust
S= Succeed
Parents note that any child is a “Success Mechanism” and very persistent. Edison who was a genius for many people defined the word genius to be 1% inspiration and 99% persistence. Think about your child in these terms, read the things you can do and you will be able to manage situations like “- I want an ice-cream! – No!, – I want an ice-cream!, – No!….”
You will also find out how important is the TRUTH in the child’s life and how many bad things can happen if the parents are not seeking the truth or not keeping their promises. Learning this as a parent will most probably solve the “teenage years problems”.
Part IV – DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT
While reading this part parents will see the importance of nurturing all the skills offered by nature and also how the word Play influence the child’s life. Also a Work versus Play section will show how many things a child will learn while playing. In this part the author described also the development stages by month of the first 3 years in any child’s life. So you will find how she/he develops physical, mental or using motor skills. I admit that Nadia, at hers three months does the things described by Tony .
Part V – THE SENSES
This part explain to the readers that a child will know the Universe using all the senses that Nature gave us. It is also introduced the “homunculus” – the “brain’s eye view” of what is really important. You, as a parent will discover all the senses through their capacity, development and freedom with which the child uses them.
Part VI – LEARNING
This final part investigates the major areas of learning in baby’s development. It includes:
Curiosity
Concentration
Logic
Art
Music
Mathematics
Reading
Baby Talk
Hot Housing
Mind Sports
Information Technology
Dance
Sensuality and Sexuality
Learning Difficulties
Pets
Discipline – Physical and Mental
Schools
And besides being probably the first book written from a child’s point of view, the author invites yo to read the book in a total different way: by using The Swan – an Overview of “Brain Child”, the first Mind Map in the section in the middle of the book.
For the moment “Brain Child” is available in English language on Amazon.
Few weeks ago, I sent an email to Tony’s team asking them to translate the book also in Romanian and they replied they will take this into consideration. I hope the book will soon appear in bookstores all over the country. For sure, with this book, we will have smart kids and Romania can have a different future!
More about Tony’s books and thinking tools you can find on his website: http://www.thinkbuzan.com/uk
Finally I want to thank Sabin again for telling me about this book! It is amazing!!!
I will continue with Mind Maps for kids 
And maybe in ten years from now, I will laugh reading this post, because 3 months seems to be a short time. Or is it a long time?
As well she is totally sweet in the morning when she’s awake, but not yet crying, but just letting us know she’s awake
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