Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them. |
Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes conditions, which is just the sort of learning that drives change in the brain. |
There are changes in the brain (during pregnancy and early motherhood) ? concrete, measurable changes, and later, the way we think and behave is changed. |
There is no other time in a woman's life when she needs to be quite as smart as when she is looking after young children. |
Working mothers become masters of time management. |