Attention Games
101 Fun, Easy Games That Help Kids Learn To Focus
Chapter One
PART ONE
Games for Infants
The brain is not developed at birth. The heart has the same form from
birth on, but the brain needs experiences to make pathways between the
brain cells. We have one hundred billion brain cells at birth. The ones
that aren't used die. We use them when we connect them, with synapses, to
each other in meaningful ways.
By age three, one thousand billion connections have been created by
repeating things over and over. Repetition creates patterns as one experience
is connected to many similar experiences. In order to form these patterns,
children need interaction.
The relationship between parent and child is crucial to brain development.
Parents and caregivers have a marked affect on creating connections, because
the pathways between brain cells are reinforced by what the infant sees, smells,
hears, touches, and does during the first years of life. Children raised in
deprived sensory environments where there i ... read full excerpt from Attention Games: 101 Fun, Easy Games That Help Kids Learn To Focus ebook
