This is a great primer on the development of a child’s brain and how to support various kinds of learning at different ages. The author has some clear opinions that are sometimes a bit preachy and/or condescending, though it’s clear she is trying to be supportive and helpful. Overall I recommend it. Lots of useful information in presented in ways that are easy-to-apply.

I read this book particularly for the parts about adolescent brain development, but it didn't offer much there that I hadn't covered in college. However, I found that chapters about younger children especially interesting. Your Child's Growing Mind helped explain why some bright children do so poorly in school and have such an adverse reaction to learning.

While I wouldn't use this book as a Bible for child education (and really you shouldn't treat any book as the gold standard in that area because children are so different), I would heartily recommend it to parents and anyone who works with children.

Great book about how to encourage your child's love of learning and overall education. It includes info about activities and practices you can start at home as well as how to handle things if problems arise with school. Must read for parents and teachers.

This book was one of the books I used as a reference for outstanding materials in my book, Raising Children to be Gifted. Only this one is far better than mine.

Informative, intelligent, caring. This book was a ripe read for when I had a young family. It held me mesmerized and besotted with motherhood; empowering me to give everything I could to my growing children so I could lead them into intelligence, sensitivity, and perspective.

I love this book. I am going to buy it over and over again for my children as they give me grand-children.

I thought this book contained an excellent explanation of early neurological development. I loved the philosophy espoused of trusting children's innate drive and curiosity. I found the actual recommendations for supporting learning and development to be a bit adult led and directive than I prefer.

I found this to be a friendly presentation of some heavy science. It took me forever to get through it but I walked away with refreshed appreciation for God and His creation. I would think every new mother would want to read this DURing
pregancy.

Very interesting story behind the brain science of children. Great for parents and further educators!

This excellent book is perfect for a parent trying to understand how children's brains develop and learn. I highly recommend it.

Read as much as pertained to newborns and infants. Was hoping for more detail and more step by step development. So really this just wasn't the book I wanted.

I read the most recent update of this version (only a few years old, I think). What I was most impressed with was how clearly she spells out the differences in stages of development--I realized that some of the things I get frustrated with my son over are things that his brain actually isn't wired for yet. The most useful part of this book: Healy gives lots of ideas for creating an environment that nurtures creativity in children. Plus, she has a research-backed argument as to why pushing too much academic subject matter (for instance, reading and math) isn't good for very young (preschool and younger) children, whose brains aren't quite equipped for that yet. A very young child might be able to recognize words if you drill her, but she isn't reading--she's recognizing. She doesn't have the neural connections (or the lived experience) to understand what she's reading. Worse, unless reading is initiated early by children themselves, forcing children to read may reroute neural pathways so that children are using the wrong parts of their brain to read, which can cause difficulties later on. Healy argues that it's much better to foster creative play and exploration among children.Overall, I found this a readable and enlightening book.

This is a great book for understanding how the brain develops and what can be done to optimise the learning and development of a child. Like the Endangered Minds, this book in my opinion, was ahead of its time when first published. It gives very pragmatic tips on a whole lot of areas in a child's learning. I appreciate how the author emphasise that kids have different ways of learning; not performing well under the realm of scholastic standards do not equate to a child not being "intelligent" or successful in the future. The author recognises that there are different types of intelligences and it's up to us to discover and help cultivate these in our children. The author provides lots of practical ways in supporting a child's learning abilities. This is an excellent book from a very passionate author about this subject. Highly recommended.

Very interesting book. Great for learning how the brain develops and grows and a fabulous reminder that every brain is unique and, as a result, people learn differently.