What do residual reactions of early childhood reflexes have to do with learning and behavior problems in children? Many children are obviously intelligent, but stand out in their learning, behavior or motor skills. For example, they are: constantly overwhelmed, cannot concentrate, mess around, have no interest, immediately forget what they should do; They have to have everything their way, otherwise they'll freak out... Maybe they're shy or clumsy or have writing or arithmetic problems. Life is stressful for the children affected as well as for the family and for the class/daycare group. The cause of this may be neuromotor immaturity.