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Act Naturally: The Benefits of Wet Hands and Muddy Feet

An Interview with Richard Louv

The Editors·May 22, 2019·7 min read

How do we get today’s kids active and in tune with nature? And if the current generation of young parents missed out on personal experiences with nature, who will teach their children? Read More

Baby pulling stethoscope. Photo courtesy Mount Sinai Parenting Center

A Work in Progress: How Mount Sinai Parenting Center Is Bringing the Science of Child Development into Pediatric Education

The Editors·March 27, 2019·4 min read

New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the nation’s oldest and largest teaching hospitals. They're upping their early childhoold development game with an online curriculum that demonstrates how pediatric residents can promote brain development and help strengthen parent-child relationships within the confines of routine well-child visits Read More

Sarah Smith: Bringing Childhood Education to the World’s Hardest to Reach Places

The Editors·April 30, 2019·4 min read

It’s an ongoing global crisis: More than half of all refugee children – some 62 million – have no access to any form of education. From establishing schools in refugee camps to bringing Sesame Street to the Middle East, Sarah Smith, Sr. Director of Education at the International Rescue Committee, explains how the IRC addresses this humanitarian emergency every day. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19 Read More

Fixing a Broken Marketplace

Talking Childcare with Elliot Haspel

The Editors·January 21, 2020·5 min read

Sometimes what seems like idealism at first can actually be canny realism. Case in point: Elliot Haspel’s recent book Crawling... Read More

5 Questions for the Mayor: Burlington, Vermont’s Miro Weinberger

Linda Shockley·November 6, 2019·3 min read

Burlington is a progressive city known for its great beauty and its location on the shores of Lake Champlain. What... Read More

Rep Deb Haaland and Sen Elizabeth Warren

Warren and Haaland Introduce Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act

What Will It Do?

The Editors·July 8, 2019·3 min read

A universal child care plan rolled out by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, one of the roughly two dozen... Read More

Early Childhood 2020: What Do You See?

The Editors·January 31, 2020·3 min read

The New Year, with its metaphor of clear vision, calls out to all of us to think about the future; to envision a better world for children, youth, and families. While we can’t predict what the decade will bring, we can use what we have learned over the years—and our common sense—to set some goals and move forward. Here is what I see and hope for in a new year, in a new decade. Read More

A baby smiles while being tested by a Magnetoencephalography (MEG) machine

How Babies’ Brilliant ‘Onboard Computers’ Sort Language From Sound Soup

The Editors·October 3, 2019·7 min read

When you see a baby gazing on the world, you might imagine a little sponge passively soaking up information. Don’t... Read More

Relax: Principles to Reduce Childhood Can Help Shape Public Policy

The Editors·February 22, 2018·1 min read

Today we complete our review of the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child report “Three Principles to Improve Outcomes... Read More

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (Part 1): How Did “Play” Become a Four-Letter Word?

The Editors·April 23, 2019·6 min read

The pressure to over-program kids often seems endless – so much so that a simple, old-fashioned idea has fallen to the side: Children should play. Roberta Michnick Golinkoff & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek – researchers and co-authors of “Becoming Brilliant, What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children” – explain their “Learning Landscapes” program, where they help local municipalities turn public spaces like bus stops into child-friendly play zones. Read More