Jack Shonkoff

Um, for particularly for very young children, that, that can be quite over-stimulating, um, if, if, you know, if, if they're exposed sort of in excess at a time when their brains are rapidly developing.

Um, preparing for this reminded me of, I don't know how many people have read this, but Jack Shonkoff's Neuron to Neighborhoods.

It's a very old, um, book, but it's, but it's still relevant in terms of, you know, how do young brains develop and what kind of stimulation, um, do we need to have healthy brain architecture? And as Aaron mentioned, a lot of that is rooted in the relationships, um, that children are having with the people who are around them and who are taking care of them, particularly in those early years, but then also beyond.

Um, Tanika, uh, we just had a comment about, um, are we gonna talk about teens also, and I just wanna say everything that Tanika is saying right now really, um, relates to teens as well.