My Hidden Chimp: From the best-selling author of The Chimp Paradox
£12.30£14.20 (-13%)
My Hidden Chimp is an effective and powerful new educational book that offers parents, teachers and carers some ideas and thoughts on how to help children to develop healthy habits for life. The science behind the habits is discussed in a practical way with exercises and activities to help children think the habits through and start putting them into practice. The neuroscience of the mind is simplified for children to understand and then use to their advantage.
Professor Steve Peters explains neuroscience in a straightforward and intuitive way – offering up 10 simple habits that we as adults and children should have in our arsenal to deal with everyday life.
They include:
– Smiling
– The importance of talking through your feelings
– Learning how to say sorry
– Knowing how to ask for help
By also explaining the developing ‘chimp’ brain in children, he shows us how 10 habits can help children to understand and manage their emotions and behaviour. These 10 habits should and can be retained for life.
This is an important and another groundbreaking new book from the bestselling author of The Chimp Paradox and the creator of the chimp management mind model.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Studio Press (15 Nov. 2018) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 176 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1787413713 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1787413719 |
| Reading age | 6 – 10 years, from customers |
| Dimensions | 17 x 1.5 x 24 cm |
by Gaz_11uk
I got this for my 4yr old who was getting hard to control. I think she was struggling to express her emotions and how she felt about thing and different situation. I feel this book was a little too old for her in some part and had to spend a some time explaining certain concepts and meaning.
There were a few part where i had to change whole situation so suit her needs i.e being scared to go to bed, she’s not so swapped it for being scarred of spiders web which she is.
I’m not sure what the recommend age rage of this book is.
I would recommend, We’ve read it 2x i think its helping her over all. She seems to understand when shes starting to feel cross or angry, she has even taken herself off to sit in a quit space to calm down and them came to talk to us about what happened and why she got cross. The other day i found her tidying her and her little sisters room without us asking or prompting her to.
Dont get my wrong she still has her moments, but I feel like they’re less often than they were and no as explosive as before.
by Mike H
I am a huge fan of the chimp paradox and so it is probably not a surprise that I like this. I see this book as a relatively simple means of understanding how emotions can have huge benefits or create challenges for us. More importantly it provides a number of ways in which we can choose to manage them and provides reasons why we would benefit from doing so.
I really like the fact that there is a strong scientific basis for all of the ideas but that all of the content is presented in a manner that children could easily understand.
One word of caution. Passively reading the book is unlikely to be as effective as reading it, thinking things through and practicing some things. Therefore different people would need to approach things differently, there is unlikely to be a one size fits all approach.
I would thoroughly recommend this book particularly for:
1) children who want to understand how their emotions can take control of their thinking and can be incredibly helpful as well as challenging
2) adults who want to help children build their understanding and skills
3) adults who would like an introduction to the chimp paradox – this book could be a great start point
A key learning for me (albeit it now seems obvious) is how expectations should ideally change with a child’s age.
As an adult I have a set of experiences, knowledge, thoughts and feelings. It’s easy to see children as smaller versions of adults and in some ways they may be at least some of the time.
However, a child’s abilities change and grow as they get older. Therefore being realistic on what we might reasonably expect a child to be able to think, do, feel etc. could be extremely important.
As adults we are likely to have much greater flexibility and choice available to us. A little thought could make it much easier for the child to behave and express themselves in a way that we’re both as happy with as possible.
It sounds so simple when I put it like that, but it could be a really powerful insight. Making it as easy as possible to get good outcomes – what’s not to like?
In summary a great book but not a magic bullet. It is written in a simple style which could appear simplistic but the ideas are really powerful.
by Amazon Customer
Really good and helps explain to children why they may make bad decisions bur how to change it in the future
by Shalina Meenowa-Buckley
I liked how it was simple, straight to the point, and easy to follow. The activities are easy to do and is great for your child on managing their inner chimp. I do believe that it can be recommended to any child.
by james333
This book really helps you to be able to control your anger and to be positive. It has lots of fun activities you can do and the illustrations are good as well as funny. Temper will get you nowhere. Look on the bright side. However, there are also times where they help you e.g You want to go for a swim but your chimp says it’s to deep. This helped me, as I will admit, sometimes I get angry myself. If you forget about how to calm down, just read this book again!
By Andew, age 9.
by MR GARY HEAD
Superb for those working with younger children – albeit the content applies to those of all ages
by MarkyW
I had read The Chimp Paradox off of the back of a talk by Steve Peters at work. I bought My Hidden Chimp to support my daughter’s development through early teen years – maybe a bit late if you take the age rating give, but definitely helped her understand some of the teenage turmoil she was experiencing. she read it herself and we talked through or had Q&A sessions as needed, but younger children should read it with an adult.
by Mrs EJ Blackwell-Combe
My Autistic Adhd daughter took to this immediately. Explanations are in a really kid friendly format and we both loved the cute chimp cartoons. It really helped my daughter to visualise and understand her brain and emotions better. She’s quite demand avoidant but is sufficiently self motivated to complete some of the activities on her own, then we look through them together and talk. Highly recommended.