OT: Today I Turn 33...!

[David J Patrick]

Paul King wrote:
>> David J Patrick <djp at ...> writes:
>>> Just face it Tyler, the brain is at it biggest and best at about age 9.
>>> It's downhill from there, compensated by experience.
> But David is right. At around age 9, the head of the child is disproportionally 
> larger than the rest of the body, then stops growing as the rest of the body 
> catches up

In fact, the brain forms ~6 billion synaptic connections, between the 
ages of 2 and 4, and then those new connections decay to about 3 billion 
by puberty. A toddlers learning ability is never repeated so (hey new 
parents) this is the window.
djp
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