Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

The knowledge of a child’s development shows that the foundation of their mental health which is assembled early in life, as early experiences including the child’s relationships with parents, caregivers, teachers, and peers help form the structural design of developing the brain.  Being able to focus and work with information in a child’s mind, distractions can control coordination to manage information as they grow.  In the brain self-regulation of a group of skills and experiences, begin to advance in early childhood and continue to progress through the early adult years.  Acquiring the early building blocks of these skills is one of the most important and challenging tasks of the early childhood years, and having the right support and experiences through middle childhood, adolescence, and into early adult life is essential for the successful development of these capacities.

Reference

“Building the Brain’s ‘Air Traffic Control’ System: How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function” and the Working Paper series from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

www.developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/