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"What if I was to tell you that a game of peek-a-boo could change the world?" asks seven-year-old Molly Wright, one of the youngest-ever TED speakers. Breaking down the research-backed ways parents and caregivers can support children's healthy brain development, Wright highlights the benefits of play on lifelong learning, behavior and well-being, sharing effective strategies to help all kids thrive by the age of five. She's joined onstage by one-year-old Ari and his dad, Amarjot, who help illustrate her big ideas about brain science. (This TED Talk was produced in collaboration with Minderoo Foundation as an educational tool for parents and caregivers around the world and is supported by UNICEF.)
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Precoscious and impressive.
Is it really precocious or do we as a society deliberately hinder children and their development?
@Eli Nope no, she’s precocious.
Maybe the product of LOVING PARENTS.
Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
This kid has a bright future
Bright future as in burn out. There is a reason you don’t see child prodigies winning nobel prizes. They figure out life too quickly and it loses all its magic. Life gets really long and boring if you know all the answers. Just let your kids be kids.
It’s astounding what children can do. It’s also weird to think that we were all children once.
I wasn’t, I was born elderly and hopelessly bitter.
@BinaryReader my Baby pictures show me having no smile, just a raised eye brow. Today, I’m fully Conscious and not bitter…Forgiveness goes a long ways.
Geez lay off the pot cheech
We often forget we were kids for being immerse in confused mind full of garbage.
“…90% the volume of an adult brain.”
Well, that explains why kids have such big heads.
Big heads, but not big Egos!
I just thought they were Martians. 🙂
@micha gabo Looney Tunes. Bloody marvellous.
Confidence needed to do this is massive yet alone be that young in a room full of adults.
She displayed great confidence but I think what stands out most is the lack of fear of judgement
definitely not as easy as she made it look
My god. Did I just listen to a 7 year old say “neural connections” and not stutter…. This girl is going places.
I didn’t even know that word exists… I hate it here
To me the speech sounded a little pre-recorded, but I guess it doesn’t really matter for the messaging.
No. You just listened to a child repeating exactly what her pushy parents drummed into her. You can’t really think she did all of that on her own?
Amazing, don’t you think??
@Illlium That’s not a real human being, we’re watching a deep fake rendering here. They test our awareness.
How confident she is .
Exactly what I’ve been expecting from our coming generation.
Shes Australian so she might as well be asian
I never watched even any adult presenting like that
Amazing
At her age I would have frightened after seeing many people.
But this girl has such a confidence and knowledge.
yea, but when did our parents or teachers ever teach us public speaking techniques, we were never taught techniques to help us, eventually when we did it was like presentations later in 3rd grade maybe and you saying your nervous and parents say dont be nervous everyone is nervous and thats about it, now imagine this girl learning real techniques from people who understand then watching yourself speak and then having a mentor to sharpen your skills even more by showing you how you dont want to present something vs how you should present something in a more gauging way that the audience would like much more would be immensely different vs how most of us grow up and at such young ages we r never taught public speaking techniques we r just put in front and told to speak, no wonder why we were nervous. just some basic techniques and lessons as a kid would have changed things immensely
this girl obviously has parents that know a thing or two about public speaking and probably taught and train with her a lot and probably practice this speech etc. and sure some people r better at it than others but its clear shes learned some techniques and had some practice from an intelligent mentor and maybe she just thought it would be really cool to get on stage and she really wanted to do it which would help a lot also. i dont see just a girl who accidentally got here, i see a well taught girl that really wanted to do this
@Ima Starboy you know, you can teach yourself things as well. People always wants to blame others. Your entire response was an excuse for your laziness.
@havoc1zero a kid self learning? did we just watch the same video about how important social interaction with kids are when they are young now your saying kids should self teach themselves or they r lazy? r u delusional. i wasn’t blaming anyone, i just said it would help immensely to learn some techniques when we r young, and if u had any sense of awareness that means the people who need to teach kids these things because its not something thats self taught, are parents and teachers obviously because those r the people who have to teach kids things… thats not blame thats an obvious common sense fact about kids learning new important things. nothing i said was about laziness or blame, grow up. what i said was it would immensely help kids to learn basic speaking techniques in school or at home when they r young instead of basically not being taught any techniques at all, which would help with low speaking confidence and nervousness that comes with not knowing any techniques…
I didn’t learn anything about public speaking until the end of 6th grade when we were forced to do a presentation in front of the rest of the school. It sure would have been nice to get a head start in those developmental areas. I feel like my parents did their best to set me up for failure, albeit unwittingly.
When I was at her age, I used to cry out in agony and pain if my lego set was broken.
That’s what we call having a normal childhood. This poor girl will never be allowed that.
I remember when my daughter Asma was a year old, I was playing with her and she was sitting on my belly. A that moment, I was trying to take a video as selfie, and when I looked at the phone, she turned my face toward her with her small soft hand saying “Nana” I still have that video and every time I watch, it’s very deep and touching. Now, Asma is 6 and she’s very smart girl. So, we have to pay attention to our little ones, because of we my ruine their lives by just not giving them the attention they need.
When I was teaching my SO’s niece normal math (not common core) and long division, they shamed me for trying to get her to understand a new concept. I’m going to send this to them. It’s awful watching people hold their children back because they think they’re dumb, they are anything but. They need stimulating engagement that encourages them to think critically and to diagnose the world around them. I knew I could process information to her degree at her age, and no one believes me when I tell them that they need to engage their kids with adult-centric ideas. “Childrens” media these days is an absolute pukefest of useless garbage. All it does is distract their brains from processing. Remember when mister rodgers would also challenge the status quo and make children grapple difficult subjects such as racial divide, drug abuse/alcoholism, and war/army lifestyles. We need to not let our children down, but so many people my age are just fucking useless.
This gives me an idea as a public librarian to start outreach activities with 5years old children and below. We usually starts at 7 years old-12 years old for our children’s activities