How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess: A Guide to Building Resilience and Managing Mental Health by Dr. Caroline Leaf Book Review

In How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess, Dr. Caroline Leaf has written a brand new book to help parents in guiding their children in their thoughts. She begins the book by explaining how our children are facing a mental health crisis. We are witnessing an increase in depression, suicide, anxiety, and much more. Bullying is a new thing our children are having to encounter and now it occurs even online. In the book, she teaches readers how to help our children in mind management and tools that will help them. She explained for example how anxiety is from an actual thought pattern and the more they ponder on it and think about it the worst side affects it can have. They could experience physical symptoms. She explained how they could be fearful about going to school cause of a bad experience and it all occurs from a root in the brain. She compares the mind to a tree and included helpful illustrations to assist readers in understanding the mind. She explored how the mind works and what the neurocyle is. It is divided up into 5 steps and it will guide readers into helping their child to reflect and actively change their thoughts. She encouraged readers to spend 7-15 minutes a day for 63 days to establish new habits and repair past traumas. She enclosed a helpful Brain-ee cartoon character and helps children to understand the material in every day terms. 

I would recommend this life changing book to every parent and this book will teach parents how to help their children to change their thoughts and to clean up their mental health. This book is very impactful and I love the way in Dr. Caroline Leaf breaks down neuroplasticity and the brain into terms that every day people can understand. This book is even more gears to making it simpler for children to grasp their thought progress and emotions. I liked how she covered the different age groups and help to our children at every stage of their lives. I immensely liked how she walked readers through key examples and illustrations to help children through the neurocyle process. This will help us to pay attention to their emotions and behaviors. She carefully walked through questions to ask to reflect on to actively reach towards a child’s particular issue. I liked how she did a beneficial table to use a tool to go even deeper into the steps to help our children. I loved how she also included personal stories from parents to walk parents through the steps in every day examples. I liked how she discussed boundaries and how critical it is for parents to explain the why behind it. There are tons of helpful information for parents to use and this book is meant to be reread again and again. 

I received this book free from Baker Books for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy, check it out on Amazon.com:

https://www.amazon.com/Help-Child-Clean-Their-Mental/dp/0801093414/