Brain Under Construction

Chapters include:

Chapter 1: Overview of the Birth to 30 month period, Why these experiences are important now, smartness comes from more than just games, and the importance of balance.

Chapter 2: Facilitating your child's thinking abilities. Facilitating your child's development of memory.

Chapter 3: Specific ideas for children in the 8-12 month range including sensory input, reception/awareness, processing, output.

Chapter 4: Suggested ideas for toddlers 13-18 months. Sensory input, reception/awareness, processing, output, characteristics of increasingly mature thinking.

Chapter 5: Development of the brain from 8-18 months. The rise in interest in early development. What are these discoveries? The neural Network. The basis for Thought.

Chapter 6: What children need to learn and why. Behavior and personality factors.

Chapter 7: A model of cognitive functioning. Language and thought.

Appendix: Two topics of importance - Academic readiness, and having fun.