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Enhancing Brain Development, and Is Earlier Better?

Enhancing brain development is easier than it seems.  It's not about "teaching" your child, it's about responding to your child.  Being warm, physically affectionate and playing with your child helps stimulate the growth that leads to a strong foundation for brain development.  But beware of over stimulation.  Children don't need constant attention from us, they just need to know that we are there when they need us.

Keys to Enhancing Brain Development in Young Children

Children's brains are different than adults, that is why the way they learn is different-- through love and affection, playing and new experiences.  "Childhood is not a dress rehearsal for adulthood, nor is it a race.  It is a separate, unique and very special phase of life."  According to Rae Pica, who writes this article...

Debunking The Belief That Earlier Is Better


CONSIDER THIS...
What approach will you take to help develop your child's brain?

BOOK DISCUSSION
This semester we will be reading Bringing Up Bébé, by Pamela Druckerman.  We will begin our book discussion the week of September 12 will cover the Introduction, french children don't throw food, and Chapters 1 and 2.
  
Each chapter in Druckerman’s book presents different concepts.  Consider these questions as she presents her ideas of the French way of parenting.  These questions will be the basis of our discussion each week:
--What were your ideas of the chapter's concepts before you had a child?
--What is your reality of this concept, in other words, what do you practice?
--According to Druckerman, what is the French idea?
--What is your ideal?  And how does that compare to Drukerman's?
--What help or resources do you need to get to your ideal?  Or, how can you affirm what you're already doing?


CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT
There are no classes on Labor Day, September 5.

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