Reconnected Kids: Help Your Child Achieve Physical, Mental, and Emotional Balance

by Robert Melillo

Overview

Reconnected Kids is a groundbreaking guide to help parents resolve their child's behavioral problems-without medication, strife, or drama. This empowering method shows parents how to first identify their own role in their child's behavior, and then how to guide the child to focus on goals, practice lifelong good habits, and stay motivated. 

This insightful and whole-family approach will help parents and kids reach their full potential.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399536489
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/05/2011
Series:	The Disconnected Kids Series
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	520,672
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dr. Robert Melillo, the creator of Brain Balance Program, is an internationally known chiropractic neurologist, professor, researcher, and expert in childhood neurological disorders. Since 1994, his program has helped thousands of children. He lives in Rockville Centre, New York, with his wife and three children. Visit the Brain Balance Centers' website at www.brainbalancecenters.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword Leslie Philipp Weiser xi

Introduction: Reconnecting with Your Kids xv

Part 1 Is This Behavior Good Or Bad?

1 Parents, Kids, and Behavior Today 3

2 How a Child's Brain Grows 18

3 When Things Go Wrong: A Brain Out of Balance 29

4 Why Is My Child Acting This Way? 35

5 The Peter Pan Problem and the Immature Brain 56

6 Behavior: When Bad Is Good (and Vice Versa) 67

7 Setting Family Values and Rules 136

Part 2 The Family Empowerment Program

8 The Secret to Family Empowerment 151

9 The Power of Positive Parenting 165

10 See Results Before They Happen 180

11 Making Your Goals 188

12 Becoming Your Child's Coach 204

13 Family Action Patterns 222

14 Just Do It-But Give It Time 241

Part 3 The Out-of-Balance Brain

15 Brain Balance: How and Why It Works 251

16 What Parents Have to Say About Brain Balance 266

Appendix

Family Empowerment Worksheets 283

Brain Balance Achievement Centers 303

Index 307