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Experiences: The Building of the Brain
Due to lots of enriching, calm and positive experiences, some children
have strong brain circuitry.
This means they will have strong Control Centre Skills and find it easier to focus
attention, be flexible and manage big feelings.
Positive, enriching Poorer or negative
experiences = experiences = Weaker
Stronger neural circuitry neural circuitry
Other children don’t have such positive, calm or
enriching experiences. This means they don’t build such
strong brain circuitry in the Control Centre of the brain.
This in turn means it’s harder for them to control attention, be
flexible and manage big feelings.
