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Shaping Brains
Building Character
Caring for our babies prenatal onward
Shaping brains through experience and relationships
Lindsay AP Dickinson, BS
Character building
begins in our infancy
and continues until
death
~Eleanor Roosevelt
IS IT POSSIBLE TO SPOIL A BABY....?
Temperment TraitActivity level
Biological rhythms
Approach/Withdrawal
Mood
Intensity of reaction
Sensitivity
Adaptability
Distractibility
Persistence
Temperment Types
Flexible (Easy)
+ Regular rhythms
+ Positive mood
+ Adaptability
+ Low intensity
+ Low sensitivity
Fearful (Slow-to-warm -up)
+ Adapt slowly
+ Withdraw
Feisty (Difficult)
+ Active Intense
+ Distractible
+ Sensitive
+ Irregular &Moody
Experiences & Relationships
 What are Experiences?
 How do Experiences impact
Relationships?
 How do the two help the
brain grow?
 HOW OUR BRAINS GROW
THROUGH EXPERIENCES
Action generates memory,
memory generates desire and
desire generates action again
~Deepak Chopra
How We Shape Our Children's Brains
 Experiences and relationships in the first three years of life literally
shape the brain and lay the foundation for all future learning and
development
 The Amazing Brains of Babies
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltyXTfwG_78
 Neurons – Experience Expectant & Experience Dependent
 What is Fast Mapping
 5 Min Break
How do Experiences impact Relationships?
 What is relationship?
 Serve & Return
 How do our experiences impact our relationships with our babies in our lives?
 Need to survive & thrive – Discussion
 Cry it out
 Spoiling a baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVGvCaiy7zg
https://vimeo.com/99851077
 Ignoring the call to action
Experiences and the Brain
 Experiences and relationships in the first three years of life literally shape
the brain and lay the foundation for all future learning and development
 A baby’s brain organizes each experience daily. As we organize cell phone
apps, babies take their information received and place it into files
 What ever is used most, becomes their “most recent” or “favorite” in the
Experiences. This is for anything negative or positive
 Pruning nightly
VIDEO & ACTIVITY
 https://vimeo.com/103169425 Video: Brain Development
 A child’s brain undergoes an amazing period of development from birth to three—producing
more than a million neural connections each second (Video provided by www.ZerotoThree.org )
 Anxiety, Fear and Toxic Stress
 Ball of yarn (Prunning)
Stages for a developing baby into our world
Prenatal Care
Environment
for new baby
Experiences
Relationships
Whole Child
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Shaping Brains & Building Character

  • 1. Shaping Brains Building Character Caring for our babies prenatal onward Shaping brains through experience and relationships Lindsay AP Dickinson, BS
  • 2. Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death ~Eleanor Roosevelt IS IT POSSIBLE TO SPOIL A BABY....?
  • 3. Temperment TraitActivity level Biological rhythms Approach/Withdrawal Mood Intensity of reaction Sensitivity Adaptability Distractibility Persistence Temperment Types Flexible (Easy) + Regular rhythms + Positive mood + Adaptability + Low intensity + Low sensitivity Fearful (Slow-to-warm -up) + Adapt slowly + Withdraw Feisty (Difficult) + Active Intense + Distractible + Sensitive + Irregular &Moody
  • 4. Experiences & Relationships  What are Experiences?  How do Experiences impact Relationships?  How do the two help the brain grow?  HOW OUR BRAINS GROW THROUGH EXPERIENCES
  • 5. Action generates memory, memory generates desire and desire generates action again ~Deepak Chopra
  • 6. How We Shape Our Children's Brains  Experiences and relationships in the first three years of life literally shape the brain and lay the foundation for all future learning and development  The Amazing Brains of Babies Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltyXTfwG_78  Neurons – Experience Expectant & Experience Dependent  What is Fast Mapping  5 Min Break
  • 7. How do Experiences impact Relationships?  What is relationship?  Serve & Return  How do our experiences impact our relationships with our babies in our lives?  Need to survive & thrive – Discussion  Cry it out  Spoiling a baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVGvCaiy7zg https://vimeo.com/99851077  Ignoring the call to action
  • 8. Experiences and the Brain  Experiences and relationships in the first three years of life literally shape the brain and lay the foundation for all future learning and development  A baby’s brain organizes each experience daily. As we organize cell phone apps, babies take their information received and place it into files  What ever is used most, becomes their “most recent” or “favorite” in the Experiences. This is for anything negative or positive  Pruning nightly
  • 9. VIDEO & ACTIVITY  https://vimeo.com/103169425 Video: Brain Development  A child’s brain undergoes an amazing period of development from birth to three—producing more than a million neural connections each second (Video provided by www.ZerotoThree.org )  Anxiety, Fear and Toxic Stress  Ball of yarn (Prunning)
  • 10. Stages for a developing baby into our world Prenatal Care Environment for new baby Experiences Relationships Whole Child Development