Even though this story was very long and quite wordy I found it to be so interesting. Especially because I have a 2 1/2 year little boy and another baby on the way makes it is so intriguing to read about how much is going on inside a baby's brain even before it is born.
This story also reminded me of my niece. The story talked about a girl that had some of her brain removed, "UCLA had to remove the entire right side of her cortex when she was six. Binder lost virtually all the control." In February of this year my five-year-old niece was shot in the head while playing in her rural Kansas City backyard from a stray bullet. They didn't think she would be able to survive because the bullet was inoperable. But like this story says, the brain is an amazing part of our bodies and can rebuild itself. Today even though she is not 100% she can walk and talk but is still working on some of her memory skills. The doctors explained that the brain will just builds something like a casing around the bullet in her brain. As the article says, "Dr. Donald Shields: "If there's a way to compensate, the developing brain will find it."'
On a final note, I like this quote from the article, "That good, affordable day care is not a luxury or a fringe benefit for welfare mothers and working parents but essential brain food for the next generation." I find this to be so true. I think daycare can be a great thing but if it is GOOD daycare and that is so hard to come by especially still affordable.
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