Quotes About Development

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The developmental process is very front-loaded, meaning that the majority of brain growth and organization takes place in the first years of life. Now, this doesn't mean that the brain won't change after early childhood, but early life experiences do have a very powerful impact on how we develop.

When young children hear fewer words, they can still learn to speak—they'll just be less fluent. In the same way, when children have fewer relational interactions, they'll still develop social capabilities—they'll just be less mature, more self-centered, more self-absorbed.

Neglect is most destructive early in life, when the brain is rapidly growing; early neglect interferes with the child's getting the necessary stimulation required for normal development.

The example of Mr. Roseman involves traumatic experiences that took place when he was twenty-four years old. If these experiences changed the brain of a twenty-four-year-old, imagine the impact of trauma on the brain of an infant or toddler—how much more pervasive the effects would be.

Adversity impacts the developing child. Period. What the impact will be, when it may manifest, how it may be "buffered"-we can't always say. But developmental trauma will always influence our body and brain.

A child in an environment where they feel loved and safe will choose to leave their comfort zone. Safe and familiar is "boring"; a safe and stable child is a curious child-they want to explore new things. A child who feels unsafe, however, won't want this. It's an essential rule of healthy development: A sense of safety and stability provides a foundation for healthy growth.

Touch is as essential for healthy physical and emotional development as calories and vitamins. If infants aren't held or rocked—if they don't experience the loving warmth of a caregiver's touch—they won't grow. In fact, they can die.

I think about children who are molested when they are so young that they don't have the language to process what has happened. The experience locks into the brain in a way it wouldn't if the child could express with words what happened.

The earliest relational experiences are the most powerful and enduring.

los niños pequeños son muy susceptibles a la espiral de consecuencias de las elecciones que nosotros —y después ellos— hacemos, tanto para bien como para mal.

If the challenge is going to build resilience, it has to be moderate—just right. Finding the "just right" is a major issue with children who have had trauma. Remember, they frequently live in a persistent state of fear. And fear shuts down parts of the cortex—the thinking part of the brain. In a classroom, what may seem to be a moderate, developmentally appropriate challenge for many children may be an overwhelming demand on a child with a sensitized stress response

The value of early intervention programs, even those that have only brief "doses" of positive interaction, can't be underestimated.

ultimately altered their ability to respond properly to stress for a lifetime.

Resilient children are made, not born. The developing brain is most malleable and most sensitive to experience—both good and bad—early in life.

This is a common thread in our culture: We're reactive; we prioritize convenient, short-term solutions; we're risk-averse; and we use material things rather than relationships as rewards. Here, have a toy. Be good and we will give you a thing. Giving toys instead of calming touch is an outrageously misguided practice. It's the result of developmentally ignorant, trauma-uninformed policies—and another example of the need to change our systems.

is even more difficult to understand and take into account how early childhood trauma can express underlying genetic vulnerabilities.

Qué es lo que le permite a alguien tomar la decisión correcta, incluso a pesar de que no se le hayan ofrecido las oportunidades necesarias para su óptimo desarrollo?

predictable, moderate, and controllable activation of the stress-response systems, such as that seen with developmentally appropriate challenges in education, sport, music, and so forth, can lead to a stronger, more flexible stress-response capability—i.e., resilience.

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What this also means is that early experiences will necessarily have a far greater impact than later ones.

patterned, repetitive experience in a safe environment can have an enormous impact on the brain

relationships are absolutely key. For the infant, the relationship with primary caregivers is the foundation of their capacity for all future relationships.

The sense of self informs every relationship or decision we make as we move through life. And when