The Best Start In Life

AT TWO a child's brain has 50 per cent more circuits available than the brain of an adult. And contrary to early scientific belief, this active young brain has remarkably few genetically programmed psychological and behavioural traits. Rather, it is how the malleable brain circuitry is stimulated and directed - or neglected - in the first five or six years of life that matters most. Twins raised separately, for example, exhibit wide variances in speech development, correlating with the vocabulary ...

Regional Strategy Rejected

TWENTY environmental and community groups have rejected the Lower Hunter Regional Strategy and called on the State Government to withdraw its approval and exhibit its details for public comment.