🧠 Get your brain ready before you're nine. ‼️

Do your parents know...

Before the age of nine is the golden period of your brain.

Because this is the time when the brain is "building wires" between billions of neurons.

Before one day it begins to "organize" itself seriously.

🌱 Your brain is building its own garden.

Imagine your brain as a big garden.

Now there are trees up everywhere - whole tree is good. Trees are not necessary.

But at about nine years of age, the brain starts to be trimmed by gardeners, and it starts to say,

🌿 Which branches are used often? Useful - to keep them.

🍂 Which branches are rarely used - will be cut off.

This process is called synaptic pruning.

And it will shape your life.

Because after the brain is trimmed,

The remaining circuits will become the "main way" of his brain in the future.

Whether it's habits, thinking, learning, or controlling emotions..!!!So the nine years are very important.

🌤 Why is the first nine years important?

At this age, your brain is still in "everything mode."

Neurons are the most connected in life.

Children learn fast, sensitive, and incredibly sensitive to their surroundings.

But at 9-10 years of age, the brain begins to enter the "selection mode."

It will gradually determine which things are used often enough to keep them.

Anything that has never been used will be deleted to make the system work faster.

So...

What you "repeat" every day is what your brain will "keep" forever.

🌿 What should parents do in this golden time?

1. Talk to your child every day

Talking, reading stories, singing or inviting children to tell stories each day is to "open the language and reason cycle" in the forebrain.

The brain learns directly from the voice of its parents; the more it talks in a warm tone, the more the brain creates a stable connection.

Children who listen to good words every day have a wealth of words and a wider understanding of the world (Hart & Risley, 1995).

2. Play variously, not just play well.

Many children choose to do only what they "definitely win."

Like playing good games but not trying new things because of fear of losing.

This does not necessarily mean that he is stubborn, but his brain is "quickly rewarded." It chooses to use the immediate reward circuit too often (reward system).

But it rarely uses circuits that help "stifle emotions" or "recover after mistakes."

By the age of 9, the brain stores only frequently used circuits.

And unknowingly cut out the "dare to try again" cycle.

So let's give you the opportunity to play a game that "loses but learns."

For example, per block with rules changed every time, play a cooperative game board, or try a new activity that is not yet good.

Children who have "lost and then tried again" have a healthy forebrain and a higher EF than risk-avoidant children (Casey et al., 2015).

3. Plant thought flexibility

Simple games with rules changing, such as

"Today per LEGO with the left hand" or "drawing without using favorite colors" will help the brain create a Cognitive Flexibilities cycle.

Because the brain doesn't like change at first

But when practiced often, the brain learns that change is not scary.

This is the foundation of the "brain ready to learn throughout life."

4. Take care of the brain with food and sleep.

The brain needs good energy to create a healthy synapse.

Especially the omega-3 fatty acids (DHA) that help build neuronal membranes.

And the key is "sleep."

During your sleep, the brain organizes your memory and decides:

which circuit should be kept Which circuit should be deleted?

Sleeping is the moment the brain truly "landscapes" itself.

Children who sleep enough have a well-organized and more focused brain.

While children do not sleep well, the brain erases both good and bad information simultaneously (Tononi & Cirelli, 2014).

5. Reduce stress in the home

Shouting, speeding, or a tense atmosphere.

Direct affect the brain of children at this age.

When the body repeatedly secretes stress hormones (cortisol),

The forebrain (that uses reason) is inhibited.

And the amygdala grows too fast.

Children are therefore easily irritated, difficult to control themselves, and often avoid challenges.

Adult warmth is the "fertilizer" that best helps the brain grow.

🌸 If not prepared now, the brain will choose for us.

At the age of 9-10, the brain begins to "pick things up."

And it will not ask parents first what they want to keep

The brain only looks at what is most reused.

That's what they choose to keep with their children for the rest of their lives.

- If the "immediate response" circuit is used often - the brain will store a provocative rush habit.

- If the "try to continue" circuit is used often. - The brain will retain patience.

- If the "avoid fear" circuit is used often - the brain will keep fear in habit.

So we have a few years before the child brain gardener starts.

What we replant every day today

Will be what he has left for the rest of his life.

🌻 Brief summary for your parents.

- Talk and read with your child every day.

- Let's play a variety of things, good things and new things.

- Let some lose, some fall, and try again.

- Create a warm atmosphere. Stress-free.

- Enough sleep. Eat good food for the brain.

Because finally, your brain stores what is "reused."

And what we "put on him each day."

Is what he will become in the future. 🌿

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