Lisa Lantieri

At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80 percent to other forces.

They are full of wonder and awe and can play creatively. Sometimes they can sense things that adults often take time to perceive or know. For example, young children are able to make quick intuitive decisions about whom they will be friendly with. However, when this aspect of a child is not affirmed and noticed, it becomes hidden and repressed. As a result, young children can lose touch with a part of themselves that is already quite well developed.

Children who are well nurtured and whose parents help them learn how to calm down when they are upset, for instance, seem to develop greater strength in the brain__ circuits for managing distress;

the sculpting of the brain__ circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day.

the real tests of life can come a child__ way at any moment,