What is “reality”?  It is lived phenomena empirically processed by the brain’s intimate embrace of lived experience.  What is “shared reality”?  It is the collective embrace of empirical experience and data through the lens of common sense. In Parts I and II of this blog, I used neurobiology and citizen science to help you look at how media/social media bombard and often traumatize adult and children’s brains.  If you have …

As an expert in child development, I have been vocal for years about my concerns regarding the role of media and social media in adult’s and children’s lives—especially the potentially detrimental effects on all our brains.   Please go to www.gurianinstitute.com to read Part I of the series.  Part III will be published soon. Because Part II continues where Part I left off, I hope you will read Part I before …

Six seemingly disparate elements stimulate this analysis:  the assault on Congress at the beginning of January and its connection to election results and an election-fraud movement; the murder of George Floyd last year and the concomitant defund the police movement; the pandemic responses nationwide over the last year that have resulted in school shutdowns; media and social media coverage of gender and sex issues; the Queen’s Gambit series about a …

We are so proud of our speakers and participants in our Winter Institute.  Thank you all!  Through crazy times and after a crazy year, the Zoom event went smoothly and the more than 200 participants gained knowledge and strategies with which to help their students and children press forward in 2021. Our speakers covered the minds of boys and girls, leading edge science on trauma-response, working with children of color, …

The Gurian Institute’s podcast just hit 1,000,000 downloads!  We are so proud of our listeners for supporting us.  If you haven’t heard it, the podcast is called The Wonder of Parenting:  A Brain Science Approach to Parenting.  It is specifically for parents, teachers, and others raising children from birth to college age.   Tim Wright hosts the podcast and Michael Gurian answers questions from listeners and provides parenting advice. You can …

My Visit to the Forge School – a Place of Hope, Adventure, and Growth As I drove up to the Forge School in early November, I saw green meadows out of which mountains rose in a fall setting.  On my windshield, sun blazed out of blue space between clouds.  Around me were shocks of autumn colors on the trees.  Pulling up to the gold and brown school building, stepping out …