An interesting new study on toddler brain function

[heartmama]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...whattheyretold

"For example, let's say it's cold outside and you tell your 3-year-old to go get his jacket out of his bedroom and get ready to go outside," Chatham explained. "You might expect the child to plan for the future, think 'OK it's cold outside so the jacket will keep me warm.' But what we suggest is that this isn't what goes on in a 3-year-old's brain. Rather, they run outside, discover that it is cold, and then retrieve the memory of where their jacket is, and then they go get it."

[tanyam926]

this makes a lot of sense, thanks for posting this bc it helps me understand my toddler so much more, especially the part where we have to tell him the same thing a million times and he doesn't seem able to anticipate the consequences of what he is doing.

[kundemama]

Pupil diameter related to mental effort is quite interesting.