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I was 5 when I realized my own limits to learning. For the first time, becoming self-aware of the struggle to master a concept. For me these were: left versus right and tying my shoes.

I never mastered the proper way of tying my shoes. I think at some early point along the way, someone showed me the lazy person's method- you know, making two bunny ears and tying those together. As a result, to this day, I tie my shoes like a 5-year-old, and a lazy 5-year-old at that. The ramifications of this are huge since a) I suspect my method is much less durable as I spent a large proportion of my life stopped, re-tying my shoe laces, and b) I tie my shoes like a lazy 5-year-old.

I also remember getting confused about the whole right-left dimension. I can only assume that I wasn't introduced to these concepts earlier in childhood, when you learn so much more easily. When neural connections are being made at lightning speed.

I realize that Jolie is in that prime age to learn, that window of forming foundations for the rest of her life- socially, emotionally, cognitively. We make it a point to say "right" or "left" when naming body parts, etc, and she's getting it already.

It's so exciting, this wide open window for learning. Yet, at the same time, a little daunting to think how much of an impact we have on our children's brain development.

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