Endorsed by leading figures in the field of children's mental health, at the heart of the book is a simple and revelatory way to understand how your child's brain develops and how it influences their behaviour.

One of the common refrains or self-talkreminders she mentions when her child has a tantrum is “It’s not about me. Something must have happened.” Narvaez’s book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, was chosen for the 2017 Expanded Reason Award from among more than 360 total entries from 170 universities and 30 countries. Narvaez received the prize, including a substantial monetary award, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City on September 27, 2017. The book also received the William James Award from the American Psychological Association in 2015. Challenging behaviour is a form of communication. If the teacher is able to become someone who is able to understand what is being communicated, their classroom and the lives of the vulnerable pupils in it will be transformed.In There’s No Such Thing As ‘Naughty’, mum to two young children, journalist and children’s mental health advocate Kate Silverton shares her groundbreaking new approach to parenting under-fives that helps to make family life so much easier and and certainly a lot more fun!

The second aspect of the child’s brain she identifies is the emotional brain, which she calls the baboon. The baboon is in charge of the big feelings that young children display. The baboon is impulsive and playful when feeling safe and well.The lizard brain is oriented to staying alive. It does not choose to react but does so instinctively. If this part of the brain is stressedtoo much in early life, it can establish long term anxiety. It needs outside help to calm down until the third part of the brain, the owl, is well developed.