Early childhood development is in the fore-front of everyone's minds.

A mound of clay to be molded, an empty vessel, a clean slate.

That is what most people think of the six-year-old child starting his first year of school. 

But new scientific evidence tells us that parents and other caregivers help mold and shape babies' brains for life, long before children begin school. 

The data gleaned from new technology indicates the brain is termendously affected by outside influences from birth to age five.