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The brain is one of the most delicate organs in our bodies, and to this day, the brain still has many unsolved mysteries.
Today, I will tell all the new parents about the brain development of 0- to 2-year-old babies and their parenting suggestions
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About brain development
There are 6 important points for parents to know
● The brain has two most developing periods, one is when the pregnancy is 8 to 13 weeks, and the second is when it is 10 weeks to 2 years old after birth.
By the age of 2, a child's brain weight is about 75 percent that of an adult, and by the age of 5 it is 90 percent.
It takes much longer for the brain to fully develop than any other organ — until you're 25 years old!
The parts of brain function that take the most time are self-regulation, problem solving, language and communication, and social skills.
Therefore, the 5-year-old brain, although the weight is close to that of an adult, it will take 20 years to complete the function.
Unlike other organs, the brain's nerve cells cannot regenerate, reaching a sufficient number (about 100 billion neurons) before birth, which explains why small babies have large heads and small bodies, which is disproportionate.
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Our nerve cells initially number much more than we actually need, but living in circumstances and experiencing experiences allow some neurons to grow, create links, and be strengthened, while pruning (abandoning) others.
The age group that occurs most frequently is 1 to 4 years of age.
The good news is that the human brain is lifelong and highly malleable, which explains why, as adults, we can constantly break through and learn new skills — such as learning to understand the cries of babies.
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0 ~ 2 years old, how for children
A good foundation for brain development
Knowing the knowledge about the brain, as a parent, how to lay a good foundation for the development of the baby's brain in the first two years of life?
The following 3 points are summarized here for the reference of parents and fathers
Physiology is the foundation, eating, drinking, and sleeping
Why is it related to brain development?
Obviously, good sleep is the foundation of everything, and for the brain to develop, in addition to receiving various information and stimuli during the day, it also needs to rest and integrate at night.
And if we can respond to the needs of the little in a timely and accurate manner, it will help the neurons in their brains to establish positive interpersonal pathways - I am important, the signal I send is understood, the world is friendly.
Of course, new parents don't worry, not that you make a mistake in the "will" of the baby, which will destroy the brain. Only when it is neglected for a long time, or is always wrongly responded to, will the child's brain development be impaired, and eventually the brain volume will be smaller than that of children of the same age.
Nothing to play and imitate more
Whether it is touching the child and giggling with the child; or holding the child, touching the east with the child, looking west, or pushing down the building blocks, etc., the parent-child interaction in these lives is very conducive to the child's brain development.
When you pay full attention to him and interact with your child, you are actually stimulating his brain neurons and constantly making connections with other nerve cells:
Corresponding areas of the brain, such as large movements, fine movements, memory, language, and social interactions, are activated and developed in daily interactions.
In infancy, there is also a particularly fun interactive game - expression imitation: let the baby lean on your leg, face to face, or the baby is in bed, you are directly above, the adult imitates the expression of the baby, such as spitting out the tongue, curious eyes; and then you initiate some expressions to see if the ta will follow you.
When you imitate each other, it is also the stage when the corresponding areas of the two brains are jointly activated, at which time the child and you can experience a deep connection with each other, so that the child secretes "happy juice" in the brain, which is conducive to brain development.
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Storytelling and acting should keep up
In our brains, the left brain is the rational brain, which organizes thinking into language, and the right brain is the emotional brain, experiencing emotions and interpreting nonverbal information.
In infancy and infancy, it is dominated by the right brain, and many things that happen to children cannot be understood by them, and this experience of not being understood and integrated is likely to become the "unspeakable" injury of small children.
For example, if no one explains what happened to him when he is a toddler, it is likely that the child will cry when he passes by the playground, and the adult will not understand.
What is the good practice?
"You look in pain. When you walk through the slide, you are tripped by a small stone 'bang', the little hand 'hisses' and hurts, and your mother 'whirring' blows. "When you simply repeat your child's experience, or even speak while acting, with some humor, the child can understand his own experience and integrate the left and right brains."
The rationality of the left brain will also help the child understand the experience of the right brain and regain a sense of control.
This article guides experts | Wang Qi
Lecturer and practitioner of game power;
Interpreter for Dr. Lawrence Cohen's play force workshops and several parenting courses
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