09/11/2025
In the early years, a child’s brain is developing at an incredible pace 🧠 but not all areas grow at the same time. By around age four, the parts of the brain responsible for vision are nearly fully developed. This means children see clearly, but that doesn’t mean they understand everything they see. The prefrontal cortex 📖 the part that helps us reason, make decisions ❓, and see the bigger picture is still a long , long, long way from maturity.
At this stage, touch 🤗 🤝 is another sense growing rapidly. Touch is our foundation for feeling safe, connected, and grounded. It’s through touch both gentle and rough play, physical closeness, and movement that children begin to build mastery of their bodies and learn to relate to others.
This is why we don’t overwhelm young children with too many questions or expect them to make big decisions. Their brains are still wiring for connection, trust, and understanding. Our role is to provide calm, clear guidance so they can grow into their thinking selves in their own time. 💛
The blue areas indicate maturity, with red the least developed. Guess when we get to a fully 'blue' brain?
(ps. our brains aren't actually these colours inside our skulls, this has been done with very fancy technology).
