Imagine that. A newborn experiences seeing most people wearing masks so the child can’t “read” the person’s facial expression. No positive feedback for learning. Surprise, surprise, they’re developmentally stunted. What is more concerning is humans are pretty much designed to reach certain cognitive levels at certain points in their life. If you delay a child’s foundational cognitive development for the 1st two years, will they ever “catch up”?
Well, that’s silly; nobody wears masks at home.
The whole premise of this article is false - it’s striking how much baloney has accompanied this plague.
I’m guessing not.
For many things, there are windows where certain kinds of learning take place and when it is closed, the child ages out, whatever he got then is it.
Focus on the Family did a series many years ago about increasing the intelligence of your child.
Turns out that between the ages of 8-18 months, social interaction, especially with mom, makes a HUGE difference.
It involves eye to eye contact when talking to the child, and talking to them on an adult level. Apparently, by talking to them like that instead of baby talk, talking down to them, challenges them to use more brain power to figure things out.
Also, sitting down with them and reading to them is also big, as well as simply doing things with them. Ordinary, everyday things.