Magic trees of the mind : how to nurture your child's intelligence, creativity, and healthy emotions from birth through adolescence / Marian Diamond, Janet Hopson
Introduction: Experience is the Best Sculptor -- 1. Trees That Grow So Fair: Neural Forests of the Mind -- 2. An Enchanted Thing: The Brain's Network of Connections -- 3. Feed My Brain: Influences in the Womb. An Enrichment Program for the Unborn Child -- 4. Dreaming Eyes of Wonder: Nurturing the Very Young. An Enrichment Program for Babies and Toddlers -- 5. These Become Part of the Child: Stimulating the Mind in the Preschool Years. An Enrichment Program for Preschool Children -- 6. Letting the Future In: The Power of Experience in Middle Childhood. An Enrichment Program for Grade School Children -- 7. Plant Another Tree: Continuing Mental Development in Adolescence. An Enrichment Program for Teenagers -- 8. Learning Not by Chance: Enrichment in the Classroom -- 9. As Morning Shows the Day: How Social Factors Shape Future Minds -- Resource Guide: Additional Tools for Enrichment
Summary
Takes us through the evolutionary journey of a child's brain, showing how our minds are stimulated in specific ways at every age
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-449) and index
