By Jabeen Waheed For Mailonline
Published: 15:56 BST, 24 June 2019 | Updated: 15:56 BST, 24 June 2019
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Chris Evans asked a leading brain surgeon advice on how to deal with his son Noah losing his manners.
The host, 53, took advantage of his guest, brain surgeon Dr Rahul Jandial, on his Virgin Radio Breakfast Show on Monday, as he described his plight in trying to tame the ten-year-old.
He revealed: 'My 10 year old used to say please and thank you all the time, and he's just started to stop doing that.'
'He's stopped saying thank you': Chris Evans, 53, asked a leading brain surgeon advice on how to deal with his son Noah losing his manners
Revealing that Noah is now beginning to forget his P's and Q's. Chris added: 'I had a word with him over the weekend and it wasn't going in. How do I best part information to my 10-year-old?"
Jandial then explained there was more the situation that met the eye, as he noted: 'I find that the human brain when you look at it over a period of eight decades, there's something interesting that happens from teenage years to early twenties.
'The first thing that many people think is that our brain is growing throughout our life. Actually by age four or five, the skull and the brain are about the same size.
Interestingly you're born with more brain cells then you hold on to. You're meant to prune them based on the interactions you have. So if it's not engaged then it will let that tissue wither away