The stories stimulate the brain development of children

Thanks to the reading of children's stories and the game with educational toys that stimulate the development of children's brains. Children's brain develops with storytelling I have always liked to read stories to my children, tell them stories of when I was little, how I was surprised by the sayin

Thanks to the reading of children's stories and the game with educational toys that stimulate the development of children's brains.Children's brain develops with storytellingI have always liked to read stories to my children, tell them stories of when I was little, how I was surprised by the sayings my grandmother told me, teach them how to do this or that , to show them curious things ... It has always been fun for me to sit on the carpet and play anything with the children, we have all done it together, especially on the weekends and we have spent really funny times. The most curious thing is that this seems a natural thing that many parents do with children because it comes from the heart, it can enrich them so much.

The early stimulation that parents do with our children helps them establish a greater number of neuronal interconnections in children's brains. Reading stories at an early age, as well as playing with educational toys, influence the growth of your brain, as revealed by a study by the University of Pennsylvania (USA) at the Annual Meeting of the Neuroscience Society.

And that is so that children are smarter, stimulation is essential. These researchers have shown that there is an extremely sensitive period in childhood, during which the development of the brain is strongly influenced by environmental factors.

But, how does this brain mechanism work? When the brain develops it always produces more neural connections than necessary. But with the passage of time, these neural connections that have not been effective through the experience are considered as 'surplus' and are being eliminated in a process called 'synaptic pruning'. Synaptic pruning reduces the thickness of the cerebral cortex and makes the processing of information much more efficient.

So the early stimulation that parents do with children reading stories, telling stories, playing with them ... have a decisive influence on the formation of the structure of their brain. This study shows that cognitive stimulation at an early age leads to changes in the thickness of the cerebral cortex.

Marisol Nuevo.

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