Summary Of The Teenage Brain By Frances Jensen

Many people believe that some children don’t have good learning abilities and aren't learning anything. However, in her book “The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Raising Adolescents,” Frances Jensen explains, that children have the greatest amount of plasticity which means they can learn more and faster. Jensen states,"In the first few years of childhood there is a critical period of plasticity in which learning comes quickly and easily. Evolution experts believe this is the brain's way of helping us adapt early to the specific environment in which we are raised” Pg 71. Basically, Jensen is saying that children have a lot plasticity (learning ability) which means that they will learn faster and easier. At first glance, children appear