The Huffington Post – George Halvorson
“The biggest single public health deficit and failure in America today is the fact that almost no parents of newborn children have been told or taught that they can improve their child’s learning abilities significantly by exercising their baby’s brain in the first three years of life. The basic biological science on that issue is absolutely clear — and almost no one is sharing that information about that biology in any useful ways with the parents of newborn children. Far too many parents believe that the learning ability levels for their children are set automatically for each child at birth. That belief is entirely, completely, utterly, dangerously, and dysfunctionally wrong. Learning levels can be — and often are — changed significantly for each child and parents and families can make that change happen. Brains develop. They are not fully formed at birth. The brain development that happens in the first years of life makes a huge impact on each child’s ability to learn for their entire lives. Almost no parents know that information about early brain development processes or brain strengthening opportunities. That lack of knowledge is a major learning gap of its own.”(more)