Dharma Parenting with Dr. Robert Keith Wallace and Dr. Frederick Travis

Aired Sunday, 4 September 2016, 9:00 PM ET

Parents often marvel at how differently each of their children learn, think, and function: one child might learn quickly and forget quickly, while another learns slowly and forgets slowly; one kid might be hyperactive, while another is slow moving; and one may fall asleep quickly, only to awake in the middle of the night, while another takes hours to fall asleep.

Join Sylvia and her two guests, Dr. Robert Keith Wallace and Dr. Frederick Travis, co-authors of Dharma Parenting: Understanding your Child’s Brilliant Brain for Greater Happiness, Health, Success, and Fulfillment, as they discuss how parents can use the time-tested knowledge of Ayurvedic medicine to better understand their child’s natural inclinations and corresponding strengths and weaknesses.

About the Guests Dr. Wallace and Dr. Travis

ROBERT KEITH WALLACE is a pioneering researcher on the physiology of consciousness. His research has inspired hundreds of studies on the benefits of meditation and other mind-body techniques. Dr. Wallace’s findings have been published in Science, American Journal of Physiology, and Scientific American.

He received his BS in physics and his PhD in physiology from UCLA and conducted postgraduate research at Harvard University. Dr. Wallace is the founding president of Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in Fairfield, Iowa.

FREDERICK TRAVIS is a world-renowned neuroscientist who has discovered brain wave patterns in children and young people that correlate with greater moral reasoning, happiness, emotional stability, and academic performance. Dr. Travis has authored or coauthored 70 scientific papers, many published in leading peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Travis received his masters and PhD in psychology from Maharishi University of Management (MUM). After a two-year post-doctoral position at University of California at Davis, he returned to MUM to direct the EEG, Consciousness, and Cognition Lab.