Baby Einsteins

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and form them back together again. A form of spatial- temporal reasoning is jigsaw puzzles and shaped puzzles for toddlers. Learning is a great factor to the developing brain and studies have shown “Infants who learned better or faster than other infants may also end up being more intelligent children” (Columbo 84). The exposure to more learning based activities helps learning abilities to increase inside the toddler’s brain. The more a child is exposed to intellectual methods of learning have a higher chance to increase intellectual capacity.

Our brain holds many wonders to the world as to how we commit information to our mind, so we can innovate our surrounding into extraordinary things. Since humans have evolved as time goes on “our brains have evolved to learn from other brains” (Micco “Baby Brain Boosters”). Our brains have the ability to learn from other brain’s and the way an individual processes certain activities. An individual’s mind have distinct features in which others may not hold, and the brain is a unique complex organ. Many children learn visually to understand the activities they are participating in. As children learn the mind is in a visual learning stage in which pictures help them processes certain mental tasks. Researchers have found out children use “visual habituation measured by a repetition of two basic steps” (Columbo 36). Visual habituation is a method researchers have found in which toddler’s use to learn during the early stages of life. Toddler’s are learning in their various environmental surroundings in which they have come in contact to. The learning abilities they use are “able to commit information, such as the name of the object, to memory by repeating over and over” (Southgate 185). Repetition towards a child learning new shapes, colors, and people helps information be engraved in the developing brain. John Wooden has once said “the importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.”

As toddlers learn there are interrupters which affect the development of the brain. Environmental interrupters are the ones which are seen the most when the learning of a child is interfered with. Parents are guides to learning during our first stages of life, but “parent input can affect language development” (Sears 448). Input in which parents think will help the child learn better will actually minimize the ability to learn new stuff about the world around us. Parents are looking out for the best of a child as individuals to secure our intellectual findings, but do not realize they could also be a big factor of interrupters. The environment a toddler encounters can be greatly affected, for “the brain of the infant is designed to be molded by the environment encounters” (Davies 43). Another factor which plays a key role to interrupters is the environment an individual is surrounded by. The environment helps shape us, the people we encounter, and their emotions have a big affect on the way new information is processed. Interrupters affect the way children are able to learn, and “children’s experiences before the age of five will irrevocably affect their brain development” (Quirke 391). Individuals may not see the environmental factors that can cause major effects on the child. The attachments toddlers form at a young age have a great role in their learning ability when “first relationship experiences positive[ly] or negative[ly] influence the child’s participation” (Lally 13). The bonds which are built up between children and parents have an influence to a certain extent and how they are perceived through the child’s eyes. As attachment goes for bonding children and parents need a nurtured environment for a child where they seek comfort. Some children may not receive the comfort they deserve, and “children who do not get enough loving cuddles early in life may lack the brain wiring to form close relationships” (Silberg 12). Parents should comfort the child by showing how they brighten the world and giving stability to form relationships when they grow older. Learning comes with many positive outlooks, and something great can have a horrible effect.

IQ’s are a major factor when admissions are taking place for a community college or university. Our memory is a unique force which allows us to remember symbolic things which we learn daily. Children absorb their surrounding in which the individual’s “memory and attention span increase, [and] [parents] [will] start to see evidence that [they are] not only absorbing information, but also applying [this] to his day to day activities” (Shelov 198). An individual’s mind has the ability to absorb new information, causing the mind to expand and form brand new connections. Language plays a key role in cognitive development, and “reading daily to [the] baby help[s] with associations, thinking, and language” (McClure 216). Parents should incorporate daily reading towards the child’s routine for more active mental thinking. As well as mental thinking is involved language is more easily understandable. Environmental factors can also play a role in cognitive development of the toddler. Parents providing positive environments to their child can “help the brain grow and develop, [and] environmental experiences stimulate nerves to branch out and connect with other nerves” (Sears 305). Enabling the brain to grow more branching out connections can be produced by environmental experiences. When attachments are formed, toddlers look for “security, comfort, freedom, and limits are essential ingredients for healthy development--of the brain and the person” (Klein 10). We as individuals all need comfort from someone and we seek security in those among us to feel worthy. Toddlers are young learners, evolving from other brains, “observing and sharing in baby’s play, [so] parents can begin to [get] a faint idea of all the decision-making and problem solving processes going on” (Sears 305). Parents interact with the child during play gives them the idea of how children process problems. The brain is complex as well as a child’s learning to make decisions to move forward.

Communication is a key role to form a attachment between parents and toddlers. By helping children communicate in various ways, parents are helping them develop language early on in life. Parents are encouraged to interact with their child as “[giving them] lots of time, attention, and eye contact while you are talking to him” (Cooper 140). Extensive forms of communication exist, but parents should give undivided attention towards the child as they learn to communicate back to them. Toddlers learn communication from their parents as “expressive language can take the form of speech, gestures, sign language, and writing” (Friedman 23). Parents have