The home is the single most significant environmental factor in enabling children to develop the trust, attitude and skills that will help them to learn and engage positively with the world.
A good home-learning environment provides the love, security, stimulation, encouragement and opportunities for children to flourish - a process that starts at birth, if not long before.
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR LEARNING: EARLY BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
In the past 25 years technological advances have enabled important new discoveries about the growth of the human brain and the impact of a young child's experiences on their development. The human brain is unfinished at birth. A baby's brain develops at an astonishing pace - from 25 per cent of the fully formed brain at birth to 80 per cent by the age of three.
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