2024-10-14
24 分钟Discussion keeps the world turning.
This is round table.
Most of us don't remember the first few years of our lives, but the very early stage matters in a person's growth in more ways than we think.
While most parents in urban areas, better informed and having received good education themselves, invest considerable efforts in early stage childcare, the same cannot be said for parents who must leave their children behind in rural areas.
What can be done to narrow the urban rural gap in early stage childcare?
Hello, I'm Lei Ming, and this is roundtable today with Fei Fei and Steve Hatherley, we find out if an NGLs efforts can be introduced on a wider scale to benefit the coming generations.
So, to begin with, there's some background information, and that is the spinous a long term, relatively long term campaign to try and promote early childcare know how and also better practices in rural areas.
And we've seen this quite reported.
But again, now the relevant authorities are trying to push this to the wider scale on the belief that early intervention and early care, better care for children at the early stage, might have benefit for their long term and future growth.
Is there any science with this?
Yes, exactly.
I think it's now a universal consensus, especially among scientists and experts, is that the first five years of a child's life is a period of a very fast brain growth, and that has significant connection in the future, especially when it comes to the child's ability to learn, to adapt, and very importantly, process emotions.
That can lead to further questions when it comes to your mental health, when you grow up, and how you interact with people around you, how you learn, especially how fast or slow you can learn.
Every sort of link for the rest of your life is sort of dependent on these first few years.
90% of a child's brain develops by the age of five.
So not fully developed, still a little bit to go.
But the majority of the work is done by the age of five.
And newborns, they have all the brain cells, or neurons that they'll have for the rest of their life.
But the thing with babies is that the connections between those cells, those things that enable us to move or think or communicate, those are formed during the early years of our lives, and then some of the essential connections like motivation and self regulation, problem solving, self esteem, that can be a little bit more difficult to form later on in life.
Yeah, we do agree, Faye.