If you feel sad about your kid who’s not as smart as his best friend, then I think I have a reason to make you smile at this very fact. A recent study has revealed that smart kids might be good at most of the things that they do, but when it comes to thinking with a mature mindset, they lack that ability.
The brain’s outer mantle, or cortex, gets thicker and then thins during childhood and the teen years. The study found that in kids with superior intelligence, the cortex reaches its thickest stage a few years later than in other kids.
It can be to some extent due to environmental influences such as intellectual stimulation that affects child intelligence, but still nothing has been said about the particular aspect that leads to this development in child’s brain.
Whatever may be the cause, you can be happy for your chap will no doubt be a mature thinker before his smart friend.
