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Early childhood is arguably the most important time in one's learning journey. Taking on information from First Five Years (https://files.firstthingsfirst.org/why-early-childhood-matters/the-first-five-years#:~:text=The%20First%20Five%20Years,the%20connections%20between%20those%20cells.) we learn that the first five years of a person’s life will result in that child’s brain becoming almost full sized by age 5.

(“At birth, the average baby’s brain is about a quarter of the size of the average adult brain. Incredibly, it doubles in size in the first year and keeps growing to about 80% of adult size by age 3 and 90% – nearly full grown – by age 5”)

We are constantly learning, but more significantly so at this age. Whilst later in life we may be learning how to live a fulfilling life, or how to further our educations, or even how to sustain ourselves, the first 5 years of our lives are integral to learning how to be a human being.

There are things I know now that the version of myself I have pictured above didn't even know she didn't know. This version of myself was learning how to talk, and she had learned how to walk before this, and before that she'd learned to crawl.

We all start somewhere, but these developmental stages are something that connects most people. Most people do indeed learn to crawl, then to walk and talk.

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I enjoyed learning in a physical way during this time. Being shown something and asked to recreate it became a way I personally enjoyed learning.

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The teachers that affected me the most were the ones who adjusted to the way I learn, and those that noticed that I struggled with concentration.

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Having two young people around me has been a learning experience for me in itself. Helping raise two people has shown me that two people can learn differently, even in the same environments, with the same teaching.

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I find that I learn well when I am interested in a subject, and when I feel that the learning I am involved in will benefit me in the future. My interest in travelling pushes me to learn languages. I have a friend from Indonesia, and when I went to visit her family, she warned me in advance that her parents don't speak much English. I took the next two months before the trip studying Bahasa Indonesia, and, a year on from the trip, I am now conversational. This is a language I would not have otherwise thought to learn, but the motivation came from the love for my friend.