If you have a moment read this article regarding the predictability of personalities. The concept from this article will be the premise of this blog: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100806/sc_livescience/personalitysetforlifeby1stgradestudysuggests
I heard a few years back that contemporary science is showing more and more that our primary brain capacity is nearing completion by the age of 5. This is prior to entering school! If this is true, then the responsibility that parents have to educate their children and to expose them to as much learning material as possible before they even enter a classroom is momentous!?
Some may disagree that this could even be possible, but the more we learn about the brain through neurochemistry, the more we are realizing that this is undoubtedly true. Our brains are growing at exponentially higher rates and creating more neurological connections during the first 5 years of life than at any other time. While it is extremely difficult to go into much detail about how the processing of information and experience happens on the infant and toddler brain, there is much to be said about how parents can go about initiating the growth of a child's brain chemistry in more than just intellectual ways. The manner in which we process events, trauma, relationships, and information is hugely effected by the chemical memory bank we gleaned from our earliest experiences dating back to conception. I am absolutely opposed to the idea that we are strictly scientific in regards to human behavior, but if there is little or nothing to impose itself into the neurochemical patterns that have formed, our propensity will be to handle things at the extent our brain has been able to signal it.
This is why we (not me of course!) result to very primitive behaviors when we don't get our way or when we have relationship struggles, etc. Personally, I place the greatest of emphasis on my faith in Jesus Christ to have altered my chemical tendencies toward, in my opinion, immature or even sinful reactions to life experiences. It is undoubtedly a process, but I would not doubt that there would have to be not only spiritual changes but also biological (or chemical) ones being made along with that.
I would be highly curious to hear thoughts, especially from those who may not believe in the chemical nature of humanity, or are maybe just having difficulty accepting it to be true.
wow! I do think everything goes handin hand. God creted science and everything else.. I believe it is supposed to work together in unity just like everything he creates.. And it cannot do that without Him being the ultimate core. When God is taken out of the picture emotionally or spiritually, I believe the physical and mental developmental growth of especially a child will only last so long and fail to reach their full potential as a human being and most certainly miss the boat on healthy relationships with others and with God.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that both the author and the comment above bothered to factor God into this. I would have thought that educators would be thrilled to be allowed to have a profound influence on the lives of the children they are teaching. Perhaps they should be left to God's devices instead? It would certainly be cheaper.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the comment Chris, but I am a bit confused as to the functionality of your statement. If you are purporting that one's worldview, (obviously mine is based on the Gospel of the Bible) should be entirely left out of educating children, you are also supporting a notion that says our beliefs should be left out of every vocation on the face of the planet. We can no easier leave out our worldview from our professional lives than we can our personal, home lives. My belief is that the Bible offers us comprehensive examples of how to not only function in relationships with adults, but also to raise children. There is an out-flowing of faith that wisely and purely directs the manner in which people treat each other.
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