There’s been a lot of press lately about the importance of the first three years of life for a child’s developing brain. This news carries with it a threat as well as a promise: if a child is denied the right amount and right kind of stimulation, critical windows of opportunity may slam shut and that child will forever be, in some way, limited.
The good news is that a young child’s brain is so avidly searching for appropriate stimulation in its environment that the situation would have to be pretty extreme for it not to find what it needs to develop properly. Fortunately for us humans, most developmental windows of opportunity remain open a long time. If there is one message that recent brain science has to give us, it’s that the human brain is a remarkably resilient organ that has the capacity to change and develop throughout life, not just during the first few years out of the womb.
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