How Understanding Child Development Contributes to realistic expectations:
Understanding the Developing Child
TIPS Trauma Informed Parenting Week 3: The Developing Child
Extensive biological and developmental research shows significant neglect-the ongoing disruption or significant absence of caregiver responsiveness-can cause more lasting harm to a young child's development than overt physical abuse, including subsequent cognitive delays, impairments in executive functioning, and disruptions of the body's stress response.
CAFA TIPS - Week 03 - The Developing Child: Attachment and Brain Development
The following are videos connected to class material for week 3.
One of the most essential experiences in shaping the architecture of the developing brain is "serve and return" interaction between children and significant adults in their lives. Young children naturally reach out for interaction through babbling, facial expressions, and gestures, and adults respond with the same kind of vocalizing and gesturing back at them.
Being able to focus, hold, and work with information in mind, filter distractions, and switch gears is like having an air traffic control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways.
When does a person really become a 'grown up?' Surely age can't be the only determining factor. Laci Green looks at how the brain matures and what it means- from a scientific perspective- to be an adult.
Being a teenager is hard. Especially when hormones play their part in wreaking havoc on the teenage body and brain. In this episode, Hank explains what is happening to the during the angsty-time. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids?