“There’s no time to lose as everything important about the brain is decided by the age of three”

Hello everyone, today I will write about Neuromyths. The most interesting myth that I read was titled “There’s no time to lose as everything important about the brain is decided by the age of three”. I choose this topic because I’ve always heard people talking about that, and they say exactly the same. In this part of the chapter, it’s explained at what age kids learn the most.

Learning process occurs thanks to neurons. There’s a lot of myths about neurons; some people says that if you study a lot, or if you concentrate you make more neurons, and other people says that when you start getting older, you lose neurons.

Truth is that when you born, your neurons level is lower than an adult, but until 10 months you are creating neurons like crazy! Everything you see or hear is useful to create more and more neurons. That processes its called neurogenesis. But you don’t make neurons your entire life. At the age of two months old, you start to increase your synaptic density with a peak at the age of 10 months. At that age, you have the same or even more synaptic density than an adult. Knowing only that, we can already say that this theory of “at the age of three it’s when you learn the most” it’s a lye.

Of course, at the age of three, kids learn a lot, but kids learn always, and all the time.

You shouldn’t be concerned about when does your kid learn the most, you should be thinking in teaching to your sun the most you can always his/her whole life.

Regards to everyone, and have a great weekend.

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