letting them play when they're little and when they're older to charles Darwin's teacher said he'd never amount to much because he spent too much time playing within secs to let children play because it's never just plain have caught it takes more time and energy to do this but when you're deciding where to focus resources for kids learning he couldn't do better than focusing on pre puberty that's when we learn by copying the people around of 212 or thereabouts its all change say goodbye to pliable easy child and hello rebellious challenging teenager later whether that cute baby go oh well let's have another look at that brain see what's happening loaded the connections made through childhood a break happen reform from around the age of about 12 through 20 the equivalent of an earthquake takes place in a young person's brain no more going along with what the grown-ups a the adolescent brain needs to go with them ho na ho say params oh yes say evil lucien re scientists because if we hadn't developed this urge to do things differently we would never have made it this far up until about sixty or seventy thousand years ago it was fine for children to grow up like their parents but then along came the