Out of Germany come the studies that show how increased environmental stimulation causes the brain to close, to narrow its perception filters at a rate of approximately 1% per years. Over a ten year period the brain will register 10% less nuance of color, sound, taste, etc.
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Essential Joseph Chilton Pearce 60
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Essential Joseph Chilton Pearce 61
Jean Healy, in Endangered Minds, described how the associative capacity of children is breaking down. They cannot hold one idea and connect its meaning to another or sequence of ideas, an obvious capacity of the brain in response to storytelling. Children are unable to imagine the logical sequence of ideas or consequences. -
Imagination & Play 01
It was Einstein who said that imagination was more important than knowledge. He understood that our greatest discoveries and most profound works of art have come to us through imagination and play. Far from being idle day dreaming, the fantasies of childhood, build the foundation for all higher learning. -
Awakening of Intelligence 06
The real necessity of providing the child with the appropriate environment and the appropriate models for each of these periods and honoring nature's agenda. -
Pregnancy, birth & Bonding 06
Joe describes many of the routine interventions and the impact it has on bonding and child development. -
Pregnancy, Birth & Bonding 07
The many ways hospital-technological birth is affecting the species. -
Imagination & Play 02
The growth of language itself, and the relationship between word and thing begins in the womb and is based on naming. When you give them a name, a word for a thing, the word and the thing build into the brain as a single neural pattern, as a neural field network. -
Imagination & Play 03
The child responds to storytelling very early, before they can talk. The word comes in as a vibration, sensory input and that challenges the whole brain, not just to create an image in keeping with each word, but to create moving imagery, fluid imagery that follows the flow of the words. It sets up an inner world scenario, a whole inner world scene representing the story, and in which the scene is constantly shifting according to shifting of the words themselves. This is found to be a major... -
Imagination & Play 04
Imitative play occupies, this is what the whole child's first few years of life are totally centered around. They passionately want to play or be told stories 100 percent of the time, nothing else. That's what makes up their life at that time. -
Imagination & Play 05
Here we begin to explore how television and computer imagery retards the capacity to imagine by displacing descriptive language, the true source of nurturing and development of imagination, and in its place supplies concrete imagery, which comes in through the visual centers of the brain and bypasses the higher and much more evolved symbolic and metaphoric brain center. -
Imagination & Play 06
The average American child sees 5,000 hours of television before age 5, at which point we slap them into kindergartens and hit them with highly abstract metaphoric symbolic material which we call the reading readiness workbooks that the average American child, probably 70% of them, cannot cope with. There is not nurlogical foundation.. -
Imagination & Play 07
The nature of play changes. The four year old is playing quite differently than the earlier child. And the seven to elevin year old is going to play entirely differently yet again. But let's pretend play that opens at seven becomes far more fantastic, the child back here is playing at being the adult and they play all these roles out, but here it's magical play, transformative play.