Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

This book is a fantastic resource for parents of young children. The author breaks down complex neuroscience into clear, practical advice that can be applied to everyday parenting. I especially liked how it focuses not just on raising a “smart” child, but also on fostering emotional intelligence and happiness. The updated edition adds even more useful insights, with research-based strategies that feel realistic and encouraging rather than overwhelming. It’s well-organized, easy to read, and full of tips I’ve already started putting into practice. Overall, a valuable guide that combines science with real-life parenting. Good value for money and highly recommended for new or expecting parents.

I agree with other reviewers, I would have loved this book to be written more academically. It’s targeted to a wide audience/layman reader. Therefore sometimes you can feel it lacks a more solid scientific approach. But, it’s well written/entertaining and fun. Light read and points out in the right direction in case you want to dive into a specific topic. It’s not the bible, it’s not an absolute instruction manual and that’s fine by me. I would recommend it. It’s interesting enough. But, I definitely will not buy any other books on babies and children. There are more efficient ways of obtaining the information you need as a parent. That’s just my opinion.

Excellent! We are TTC and both are so happy we read this before pregnancy. We highly recommend! It is both anecdotal and practical whilst being scientific and heartwarming. HUGELY helpful in that in has made us feel like we have a solid arsenal of the best approach to pregnancy and parenting. It's not a book that tells you how to raise a genius, rather how to raise happy, good, kind humans!!! Recommend highly! Tip. I bought the kindle version first and quickly realised even with the "notes" function, that It would be much better to have a hard copy to have at hand, enabling us to refer to whenever. So 100% advise just get a hard copy so that you can highlight and peruse at your leisure in the future.

This book comes to reinforce my own beliefs regarding parenting with some occasional insight from scientific studies (such as how important exposure to musical instruments is). The fact that there is not a great deal of 'other' things that we were missing out on (especially as first parents) comes as a relief albeit some might argue they don't need a book gor this. It's all in all a good read but don't expect wonder recipes.

Brain rules for baby is a simple and well written book for parents on how to maximise their babies potential. It includes ideas, advice and more than a few stories which will make you smile. It an enjoyable and easy read and has a good balance between the scientific elements and the practical ones. The chapter on sleep is useful, but not as good as others. The science is explained well and I really got ideas and inspiration from this book. For some it might be old news (Breast is best - no surprise there), for others it might be thought provoking (No TV before 2 years old). But everyone can take something from this.

What an amazing book!! I've read practically everything there is to read on baby sleep cycles. This book covers this too. At first I thought it was slow, but once your in your captured by how much the author knows about his subjects(s). I've also read a lot on toddler tantrums and this too discusses this. If you are wanting science - this gives it to you in simple terms. The author also uses really good techniques to explain the more complex parts. I'm a busy simple mother so finding time to read books isn't easy but I was able to read through this before my son changed development stages.

I’m the type or person who loves rules and guidelines. I find it very comforting to see a list of things I can do to give my child the best start that I possibly can. That reassurance is solidified by the fact that said rules are backed by studies and explained by an expert of the field. I highly recommend this book to any other parents who want a (mostly) clear list of guidelines.

Great value

Schönes Buch, angenehm zu lesen, angenehmer Plauderton, die Wesentlichen Fakten auf den Punkt gebracht sowie praktische Empfehlungen. Insgesamt sehr gut.

This book contains some obvious elements but still need to be reminded to any new parents! Furthermore the book also give you a very good tac tics and scientific info regarding to small human! I recommend this book to any new parents!

Very good book

I'm expecting my first baby and of course I have a lot of questions and concerns. This book was great because when you're expecting your first, you receive a lot of advice from everywhere and you don't know what's truth and what's just a myth, but here you can see from a scientific perspective what's happening with your child from pregnancy to 5yo. Its very clear, very easy to read and the advise is actually very intuitive and logical, so it's easy to follow. Highly recommended!!

I just started reading it, I'm loving the first few pages ngl tho it came a bit kate probably because it was delivered overseas and I'm currently in M.E, i bought a book cover and covered it prior to reading as it's a paperback, to avoid denting it. To sum it up it came in good condition. I hope it's a good read and i hope i can benefit from it too.