The authors stress what society does for preschoolers will affect the lives of current and future generations. By age three, a child's brain is twice as active as an adult's and has 15,000 synapses, or connections, per neuron - many more than in the adult brain. Nothing is more important to babies than the attention of caring, nurturing adults. We should do what we do best - talk, play, make funny faces, pay attention. We just need time to do it.
Toddlers are great experimenters, wanting to learn about human emotions and psychology.
So when your toddler heads for that forbidden object, he is doing so not to defy you but because he is interested in your reaction. We parents are the laboratory rats. All rights reserved.