(“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.