Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Unleashing Children’s Potential

When is the best time to nurture children’s brain to unleash its full potential?

The peak period of brain development takes place between age four and 12. The rapid growth of brain cells starts from age four before slowing down around age 12, the age when the brain reaches 75% of the size of an adult brain.

What are the abilities of the left brain and the right brain?

Left brain vs. Right brain

Which side of the brain shall be the focus of development? Which side is more important? The answer is both are equally important.

In any given career field and in life, the power of both brains is required to produce excellence results. For example, in cooking, putting in the accurate amount of each ingredient and controlling the cooking method (left brain) will create a dish that is just nice to the taste buds while being creative in improvising the menu and feeling passionate in cooking (right brain) can bring out the distinctive taste of the dish.

Combining the abilities of the left brain and the right brain can lead to astonishing results when used effectively. One of the examples is Albert Einstein who used creativity and imagination of the right brain, and deduction and logic of the left brain to propose the Theory of Relativity. What’s more amazing is that he only used a very low percentage of his brain potential.

Hence, here are the four important mental abilities that need to be developed in children:

·         Concentration

·         Observation

·         Visualization and imagination

·         Memory