'This book includes common sense, easy to understand tools and strategies that are grounded in science to help parents and educators manage the everyday challenges encountered when raising and teaching children. Throughout the book, Dr. Bilbao explains principles of psychology, child development, and neuroscience to help the reader understand not just how to interact more positively and effectively with children but also why the techniques described facilitate healthy psychological and neurological development. This book absolutely will help parents to more fully understand their child’s brain.'
——Beth Slomine, Director, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Services, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore

'In this well written and easy to read book for parents, Álvaro Bilbao, PhD, a neuropsychologist and father of three, gives insight into how a child’s early brain development shapes their world and affects their learning and behavior. Drawing on years of clinical practice and sound neuroscience, Dr. Bilbao provides parents with practical, age-appropriate strategies for everyday life to foster a child’s intellectual and emotional growth to help them reach their full potential. I highly recommend this book to all those raising young children.'
——Margaret B. Pulsifer, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

★Translated into 23 languages, including English, simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, French, Italian, German and so on.
★The long-selling book, which has been reprinted 33 times since its first printing in 2015, and has sold more than 400,000 copies in Spain!
★On top 50 Amazon non-stop since its publication (#1 SEVERAL TIMES).
★Won unanimous praise from many readers, with an Amazon score of 4.7.
★This book explains the brain science of family education and child development psychology in easy-to-understand language and easy-to-practice methods, helping readers seize the golden period of brain development and improve children's IQ and EQ levels.
★Written by Alvaro Bilbao, a well-known Spanish doctor of psychology, neuropsychologist and expert in brain plasticity research.
★An English translation is available.

This book simplifies the neuroscience behind what is going on in a child’s brain during the first six years of life to help parents develop the full intellectual and emotional potential of their children.

The book starts with an accessible explanation of the pillars and principals to understanding the child’s brain. It then provides tools to helps parents communicate more effectively with, nurture empathy in, and enforce rules and positive behaviours for their children. Examining how to develop the emotional intelligence of children as well as their intellect, the chapters examine how to raise children based on trust, assertiveness, and fearlessness, while also providing support and exercises in improving language, memory, creativity, and self-control.

This book offers parents and educators practical solutions to parenting problems and realistic advice for ensuring the healthy emotional and intellectual development of their children. It will also be relevant to all mental health professionals who want to be more assertive when talking to parents about their child’s problems and growth.

Álvaro Bilbao is a Doctor in Pyschology and Clinical Neuropsychology. He trained at the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability in the UK and the John Hopkins Hospital in the US. He works with the WHO on projects connected with cognitive disabilities. Since the year 2001 he has been a part of the Spanish National Brain Damage Treatment Centre. Thanks to his work there, he was selected as a member of the expert committee of the Spanish Brain Damage Ferderation and Madrid's Interaction Institute. He won the 2010 Premio Caser for excellence in attention to people with disabilities.