bishal Posted January 27, 2013 Posted January 27, 2013 I came to know that a child from birth to 3 years, brain develops and make connections with neurons thus enabling for a person to fell compassion, tolerance etc.in future? From 3 yeears brain is just maturing. After 3 years onld the brain is just maturing what neurons are connected to. So, my point is that a child who is 6 years old if was not raised peacefully (probably hitting also) will lose the connection of love or lets say his brain will be little disfunctional. I am just confused that can this state of brain (unconnected/unloved brain), which is already there, be altered/changed when he starts maturing? If yes how hard would it be and some steps to followed? E.g: I am a father who beats his child cannot show love in my son early age ( I mean till 3 years old). Now, suddenly i listened to Stefan and realized i was wrong and my parenting for discipline was worse one. Thus changed my behaviour to peaceful parenting from now on. Is it already too late coz child brain has already developed and I made it disfunctional? Please suggest...
Wesley Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 This is mostly true. It is sort of an inverse graph (think y=1/x) where the first few years have a massive amount of brain development and some 95% or so could be complete by the age of 3 or something. This being said, it is possible for a brain to change. It is called neuroplasticity. The problem with this is that a brain that is sick had to to decide to change itself, which is difficult at best and takes years and years of work. The average person doesn't go through life altering self-knowledge. Someone who is severely damaged would be less likely to voluntarily go through self-knowledge. Besides this, there is a certain amount of violence and neglect that it is just not possible to recover from. If a child is starving, beaten multiple times a day, yelled at, tortured physically, emotionally, never taught nearly anything but the existing violent room where they are being held captive and un-loved for 3 years it would be impossible to recover from the lack of brain development. I do not know where the line exists where damage becomes unrecoverable, but some such line exists.
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