Researchers presenting at the recent 2019 Zero to Three conference detailed a program that studies have found effective in treating...
Building Young Brains When Schools Are Closed, Part 3: Outdoor Tips and Activities
Our Top Tips for Parents and Caregivers
This is part 3 of a a three-part series. Read Part 1 (Offline Activities) and Part 2 (Online Tips). In...
Author and advocate Heather McGhee has said, “Everything we believe comes from a story we’ve been told.” Whether they come...
The American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden on March 12 contains a number of potentially game-changing policies for...
The building block has been such a fact of American childhood for so long, it’s easy to dismiss the humble...
Those of us who watched too much TV in the 1970s probably remember commercials extolling long-distance phone calls as The...
Julie Leff can pinpoint the moment when she knew Roger Brooks was the right person to lead Facing History and...
Throughout most of human history and in most of the world, that paradigm of children playing outdoors as a part of childhood has been so integral as to be transparent. Not so in the U.S., where, according to the Child Mind Institute, the average American child spends four to seven minutes a day in unstructured play outdoors and more than seven hours a day in front of a screen. Washington State is changing that.
The best time to get a child’s life off to a solid start begins months before their birth. That’s why...
“I’m a reader!” These are magic words for Alvin Irby, a former teacher and the founder and executive director of...
Women come of age steeped in conversations about reproduction. Different cultures interact with women’s bodily changes in various ways, but...
The Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development, or RAPID project, gathers essential information on unmet needs and health-promoting behaviors for...
