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But not America's families alone. This information is crucial for anyone in the position of
leaving an impression on a child's growing mind: Day-care workers. Teachers. Doctors and
nurses. Television writers and producers. Business leaders. Government policy-makers. All of us.
It is astonishing what we now know about the young brain and about how children
develop. Just how far we have come is chronicled in a report being issued today by the Families
and Work Institute entitled Rethinking the Brain. Fifteen years ago, we thought that a baby's
brain structure was virtually complete at birth. Now we understand that it is a work in progress --
and that everything we do with a child has a good or bad physical influence on the rapidly
forming brain.
A child's earliest experiences -- their relationships with parents and care-givers, the
sights, sounds, smells and feelings they encounter, the challenges they meet -- determine how
their brains are wired. The brain shapes itself through repeated experience. The more something
is repeated, the stronger the neuro-circuitry becomes. The connections, in turn, can be permanent.
In this way, the seemingly trivial events of our earliest months that we cannot later recall
--
hearing a song, getting a hug after falling down, knowing when to expect a smile -- are anything
but,
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