Book Description
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.
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.