Hello

Elizabeth Duncan Katie Ralph Community Nursery Nurse Senior Childcare Practitioner

What we will help you find out

• To work out when brain development and attachment begins

• What impact parents and carers have on their baby’s brain development

• How supporting a baby’s brain development can be fun

• How a brain develops over the first few years of life

What you will know in 55 minutes

• An awareness of the pre-birth bond• The importance of stimulation• The important role of parents/carers

When does the bond begin?

Research

Sociable Babies

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6aVDPbrhyJ8

THE CHILD’S BRAIN IS LIKE THE INTERNET

To understand how the brain works we compare it to the most advanced invention of the day – THE INTERNET

This comparison is explored in this clip – highlighting that both are;•In the early stages of development•Rapidly growing and;•Always changing

The internet The Child’s BrainMost advanced technological system In the world 

Most advanced biological system in the world 

THE CHILD’S BRAIN IS LIKE THE INTERNET

BRAIN POWER: From Neurons to Networks- Connectedthefilm – Tiffany Slain

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zLp-edwiGUU

  Child’s Brain The internetSize (internet)

Neurons – Cell that transmits information, nerve cell(100billion)

Webpage- Each individual site (1trillion)

Complexity (Child’s Brain)

Synapse – connection point between two neurons(quadrillion)  

Hyperlink – connection point between two webpages(100trillion)

THE CHILD’S BRAIN IS LIKE THE INTERNET

Comparison:

THE CHILD’S BRAIN IS LIKE THE INTERNET

Image – 3:47minutes

“A child’s Brain has more connections than the whole of the internet”

These connections are built through every interaction – first five years are the most crucial (4:29minutes)

“Every time you talk and engage with a child you are growing their brain!”

Internet Adult’s Brain Child’s Brain

100 trillion 300trillion 1 quadrillion!!

EVERY INTERACTION COUNTS!At VIP Childcare we strive to research and implement new and innovative ways to create these connections with our children –

Our Recent Projects;

Baby Slings Inward Facing Buggies

• To further develop and ensure and the closeness and attachment between our babies and practitioners both in and outdoors we have researched into the traditional idea of baby wearing through Slings.

• VIP Childcare has worked in partnership with the Moray Sling Library to gain an insight to the practicalities of slings within nursery.

BABY SLINGS

BABY SLINGS

INWARD FACING BUGGIES• We strive to maximise our time with the children and feel that if we

can connect more with our youngest children even whilst ‘transporting’ them to an outdoor location.

• In connection with the work of Dr Suzanne Zeedyk (former Psychology lecturer at Dundee University) we have identified the need to update the way in which we transport our youngest children in the outdoor environment – from outward facing buggies to inward.

• Currently, research on baby brain development and neuroscience is indicating the major benefits in children’s developmental areas such as language, communication, and emotional security simply by the way we transport our children.

INWARD FACING BUGGIES

To reinforce:“Every time you talk and engage with a child you are growing their brain!”Whether it’s during pregnancy, days old or in their early years of childhood – EVERY INTERACTION COUNTS towards their Brain Development!

EVERY INTERACTION COUNTS!

Any Questions?