Teaching your child self-control too early can disturb the learning processes. These are results of research published in “Current Directions in Psychological Science”. Small children gets easily distracted and their minds doesn’t concentrate so well even on most interesting things or games. A toy can fascinate a child until the moment when another one arrives. Pretty often this drives parents mad and in effect they try to keep lower the impulsivity of their babies.
However in last time psychologist more and more often ask question: doesn’t teaching a baby behaviour control too early disturb development of their brains? Neuropsychologist Sharon Thompson-Schill and her co-workers from University Of Pennsylvania explains this worries in the news edition of magazine mentioned above. The subject of their research was area of the mind called PreFrontal Cortex (PFC), which takes care of thoughts control and behaviours. From all the informations that bombard our minds every day this part filters out the unnecessary ones and let us concentrate on what’s important.
It’s also a part of the brain that gets “mature” as one of the last ones. This delay (to other parts of the brain) is kept until 4th year of life. That’s why children can’t concentrate on something for long time and change subject of interest so quickly.
According to Thompson-Schill the benefits from that are higher than negative consequences (my question: are there any?!) because in that time the child can learn language rules and society rules. Also that’s why children learn languages much faster than adult so taking that in consideration researcher says that learning children self-control is not only hard but also not so smart.
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