Name It to Tame It: Corral raging right-brain behavior through left-brain storytelling, appealing to the left brain’s affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional storms and bodily tension. As a parent and a therapist, I'll recommend this book to other people who want to teach their children social-emotional skills and figure out some helpful ways to respond to their children's emotions.

Complete with candid parenting stories and playful illustrations that bring the authors’ suggestions to life, No-Drama Discipline shows you how to work with your child’s developing mind, peacefully resolve conflicts, and inspire happiness and strengthen resilience in everyone in the family.

To this end, it’s important to help your child develop skills for interpersonal integration—maintaining a strong sense of self while integrating into a community, with consideration for other people’s needs, feelings, and perspectives. You will find many practical strategies to support your child and the integration of their brain, all the parts of themselves, and even with others.

The authors emphasize, 'With an understanding of the brain, you can be more intentional about what you teach your kids, how you respond to them, and why. However, moments of conflict are the most pivotal opportunities to promote your child’s psychological development. Their premise is that these twelve strategies help “integrate” children’s brains, that is, “coordinate[] and balance[] the separate regions of the brain” so as to optimize mental health.Name It to Tame It: corral raging right-brain behaviour through left-brain storytelling, appealing to the left brain's affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional storms and bodily tension.