The Neuroscience of the preschooler?s Learning
The Neuroscience of the preschooler?s Learning:
Good news, parents. If this sound eerily like your preschooler, don?t fret. Neuroscientists do not regard the shrieking lamentation as proof that your child is a "spoiled brat." A more accurate definition of the garden-variety tantrum is that the preschooler?s still-developing brain is overwhelmed by mental demands.In other words, it is part and parcel of their cognitive stage.The grey matter of three to five year olds is a rapidly-growing, dynamic, fluid, spontaneous, amazing work-in-progress that is . . . still quite unreasonable. We can?t ask preschool children to "think" like mature adults and we?ll actually delay development of their intelligence if we stress them out with unrealistic expectations.Let?s dive deep into the preschooler?s skull and see what is biologically happening . . . Yikes! Whooa! Slow down! The neurological processing in the three-to-five-year old?s brain is twice as busy as that of a college student, and perhaps three times busier than an adult?s. A preschooler has 100 billion brain cells (neurons), with 77 percent in the cerebral cortex ? the territory that handles language, math, memory, attention, and complex problem solving. The neurons are forming connections via their dendrites, skinny octopus arms that slither out to receive information from up to potentially 15,000 other cells, and axons ? which transmit information from neurons to other cel...
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