Brain Development during Infancy

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This paper explores two articles that discuss how parenting in the formative months of a child's life can affect that child's cognitive and behavioural development for a lifetime. The paper focuses on the salient points of each article and suggests that each article forces the reader to reconsider anew some of the traditional assumptions that have grown up around parenting.

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"The role that parents play in the neurological development of their children cannot be under-emphasized. This brief paper presents a summary of two short articles that detail the impact that parents have upon the healthy cognitive and emotional development of their children. As will soon become evident, the information contained in these two brief articles reveals the link between strong parenting and strong, healthy young people. Therefore, the conclusion that it leaves with the reader is that parenting in the earliest stages of life is of far greater importance than we might otherwise suspect. Additionally, the information gleaned from the material presented in these two articles ties in neatly with the broader issues we have touched upon in class; to wit, the earliest stages of life set the ground work for all that will follow."

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