The Well Balanced Child Quotes

“Between 15 months and 6 years of age, the cerebral cortex appears to double in size, with synaptic density (a synapse being the point of communication between two adjacent nerve cells) reaching its peak at about 3-3½ years of age, a level 50 per cent higher than it was at birth, or will be at puberty.”
― Sally Goddard Blythe, Well Balanced Child: Movement and Early Learning