Brain Surgery

This past fall, I attended a one day seminar on parenting.  Although many good ideas were shared that morning, the greatest information I came away with was learning that my child’s impulsive nature, inability to focus, and sometimes bizarre behavior is due in large part because their brain is not fully developed… imagine that!  I learned that the front part of the brain called the Pre-Frontal Cortex doesn’t completely form until around the age of 25.  This new knowledge explains so much as I sit in amazement at some of the bizarre choices kids make.

I’ve shared this information with my kids too.  So when they give me a hard time because I don’t know something they consider to be an easy academic problem, I just simply tell them that my brain is fully developed and therefore I am wiser! J
 

Here is a link to explain the issue in greater detail...
http://www.hhs.gov/opa/familylife/tech_assistance/etraining/adolescent_brain/Development/prefrontal_cortex/index.html

 

And here is a verse that sums it all up, if you don't feel like doing brain surgery...

 

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.  How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!  Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.  (Psalm 139:13-18)