Brilliant Babies, Powerful Adults: Awaken the Genius Within [Paperback]

John Mike (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1997 | ISBN-10: 096442942X | ISBN-13: 978-0964429420

Brilliant Babies, Powerful Adults is an ispirational guide to understanding the powerful influence that early stimulation has on your developing child. How by using the techniques described in this book you can maximize your childs intellectual potential starting during pregnancy. Brilliant Babies, Powerful Adults then describes the incredible development of the conscious and subconscious mind and the emotional developement of your child. The book discusses parenting techniques to create in your child a high self worth, healthy self esteem and the ability to create loving compassionate relationships by understanding your own (i.e. the parents)developmental process.

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About the Author

Doctor John M. Mike is a Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist who received his M.D. degree from the Medical College of Ohio and finished his 5 years of Psychiatric training at The University of South Florida Medical Center. He has studied the developing brain and early stimulation for over 12 years but it was becoming the founding medical director of Florida's first treatment center for teenage girls ages at level 8 that became the final driving force to publish his work in Brilliant Babies, Powerful Adults. Level 8 is the step right before the adult prison system. The center was for girls ages 13 to 18 who committed repetitive crimes including running crack houses, auto theft, grand theft, assault and battery, prostitution ect. This was the first treament center created and after seeing the devastation of the lack of early stimulation and poor parenting with low IQ's, self worth and self esteem Dr. Mike published his book.

Dr. Mike has traveled extensively thru the United States and Canada to give talks and seminars and has done national radio and local television appearances. He was a featured speaker for the Kellog's Foundation Expert in Residence program and a speaker at The American Medical Women's Association. His work is endorsed by many nationally reconized authors including John Gray, Phd, Bernie Siegel, M.D., Gerald Jampolsky,M.D. and Mark Victor Hanson.

Dr. John Mike before deciding to focus all his energy into early brain stimulation was the founding Medical Director of Global Holistic Medical Center, and the Medical Director of Twigbenders Day Treatment Centers the largest day treament for severely behaviorly disturbed children ages 18 months to 6 years of life in Florida. He was also the consulting Child Psychiatrist for Family Service Center which is the largest provider of counceling to sexually abused children in Pinellas County Florida.

He is married and his wife is currently pregnant with their first child.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Select Pr (February 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096442942X
• ISBN-13: 978-0964429420
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,218,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware! Style over substance, December 16, 1999

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Jeffrey Miller,Esq. (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brilliant Babies, Powerful Adults: Awaken the Genius Within (Paperback)

This 154 page puff piece represents little more than an excercise in self indulgence and ego gratification by an author with minimal qulifications and scant, if any empirical research to support an erratic collection of new age style child rearing suggestions. This work is geared for parents seeking to raise a super baby not for readers who are looking for an objective treatment of subject matter relating to child development and potential giftedness. Superior books in this area include The New First Three Years of Life by Burton L. White and Your Gifted Child by Smutny, Veenker and Veenker.

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Review while unable to finish reading the entire book, February 26, 2000

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Athanasios Mitsopoulos "Businessman" (Kiev, Ukraine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brilliant Babies, Powerful Adults: Awaken the Genius Within (Paperback)

It was not possible to read the entire book. The title is misleading (do you also think the title means that brillant babies will become powerful adults?). The writer deals more with the life adults (not parents) should live, rather than how babies will become brillant or powerful.

The chapters of the book can be read in any order, there is no structure and nothing left to remember after a chaotic listing of every issue the author choses to pick: emotional mastery, a model of the mind and body (yes, such a model exists), how to redesign the subconscious, program it, and grow through relationships ('the closer we become to another person, the more we grow'), and even how to be better connected with one's own god.

It is a book which oversimplifies everything, misrepresents the seriousness of the issues under mention, and purports to offer you the secret of a happy life according to the soap opera beliefs of its author.

I regret buying this 'book' which was written in order to be sold and not read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, March 15, 2006

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DaddyDr (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brilliant Babies, Powerful Adults: Awaken the Genius Within (Paperback)

I expected a deep book about stimulating your infants minds to make them turn into Powerful Adults.

What it seems more to do, is give some very convincing evidence that you need to stimulate your infants, and be present, supportive. Then it jumps into what one needs to do for themself to make themself a powerful adult, or rather a happy adult. That's my take.

This book is an adequate introduction to where our negative mindsets come from and what we might do to change them. But it undertakes this huge endeavor in just 150 pages. If you've got some major baggage, which this addresses, I think it's going to take more than 150 pages with a few good anecdotes and quotes to help you discard it.

The book came highly recommended to me, however I was disappointed.

I'm sure there are other better books on stimulating/educating/parenting your children. And there are better books about making yourself an even better person. I happen to be reading Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for the first time, and it seems to do a much better job of BOTH, and it's not even a parenting book.

If you DO want a quick read on how to not neglect your children, and make yourself a positive thinking, pleasant adult. Check it out. It wasn't horrible. It is an easy read. And all the ideas and comments presented are right on point.