Did you know:
• A young child's brain develops through stimulation of his/her senses, e.g. seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting.
• Mother breastfeeding her baby or father reading to a toddler on his lap are both providing essential experiences for brain development.
• Brain development relies on a complex interplay between the genes we are born with and the experiences we have.
• Early years from conception to age six have the most important influence in the life cycle on brain development and subsequent learning, behaviour and health.
• Two weeks after conception, the neural tube, which will form the brain and spiral cord, is formed.
• Early experiences have a decisive impact on the architecture of the brain, and on the nature and extent of adult capabilities.
• Early interactions directly affect the way our brain is “wired”.
• By the time children reach age three their brains are twice as active as those of adults.
• Good nurturing (positive stimulation) creates the foundation of brain development.
• Negative experiences in the early years are likely to have decisive and sustained effects. |
