Did You Know? 🧠
The right side of the brain develops first at around 3 – 4 years. The left brain, on the other hand, doesn’t fully come online until children are approximately 7 years old.
What Does This Mean? 🤔
The right side is the creative, imaginative, side, where empathy and intuition is favoured. Children there fore do what feels good for them, right there and then and cannot always explain why.
The left sides function is language, numeracy, literacy, analysis, logic, planning and time. ⏰📝
The Importance of Play
Understanding this, we can better appreciate why play is so important for little children, where the process is far more important than the product. 🧩
How to nurture your child’s Right Brain 💛✨
– Give them lots of play
– Allow time to explore
– Don’t focus on outcomes or long-term consequences
– Importantly, label and acknowledge their feelings/intuitions. Providing words, builds pathways for the left side of the brain.
Helping a Transitioning Brain
Sing to them! The words are processed in the left brain, while tune and melody are processed in the right brain.
A rewarding time to apply this is during routine activities. If you’ve asked them to put their shoes on 2 or 3 times and they’re not listening, sing it to them. 🎶🎶 It will tune in ‘their’ brain. It will also benefit you as you will be using your right side of the brain and this will bring more joy to the situation for you too. 💞
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