What Kids Should Know About Their Own Brains By Annie Murphy Paul

In the article, What Kids Should Know About Their Own Brains, written by Annie Murphy Paul, it states how beneficial it would be if kids started learning about their brains at an earlier age than the regular middle school or high school age. Two psychologists named Peter Marshall and Christina Comalli says that parents talks to their kids about everything but the brain, children can’t see or observe their own brain, and they aren’t taught much in school at this young age, these are three factors as to why kids are so oblivious about the brain. Another psychologist named Carol Dweck says that teaching kids about the brain actually helps them with perseverance and how to deal with problems or failures in their lives. Children’s attitude towards behavior whether it’s achievement or failure starts in Preschool which is why the adults in their lives should put more effort into educating their kids about our bodies’ most important organ, the brain.
I was always told to “use my brain” by my elementary teachers and I just thought that the brain was only used for thinking, it wasn’t until in 7th grade that I realized that our brain had a huge impact on our sensory activities. A psychologist that goes by the name Carol Dweck, “has demonstrated that teaching students about how their brains work… makes a big difference in how constructively kids deal with mistakes and setbacks, and how motivated they are to persist until they achieve mastery (Paul, 2012),” which I really found interesting since the brain is something so complex that I’m still learning new things about it even though I’ve been taught about it for almost three