Compare and contrast The Whole-Brain Child with another recent book of parenting advice/strategies. How are the two texts different or similar in their approaches to communication, discipline, and/or child development? What are the strengths and limitations of each approach?

Siegel and Bryson offer various resources and strategies that parents can consult or adapt as the need arises. Which of these resources/strategies did you find the most or least effective? How could you adapt some of these strategies in your own parenting experiences?

The Whole-Brain Child uses several extended metaphors to link concepts and chapters together. Analyze some of these metaphors. How do those metaphors help connect ideas and illuminate a larger conceptual point in the book? What other literary or rhetorical techniques do the authors use, and to what effect(s)?