Dr. Alicia Lieberman was on a telemedicine call with a mother and her four-year-old son. The boy was continually and...
Getting a child outdoors to embrace literacy, art and the great outdoors is simple: All you need is a cordless...
The best time to get a child’s life off to a solid start begins months before their birth. That’s why...
Summer travel is a whole other thing when you’re a parent of young children. The rest and relaxation you’ve been...
Executive function – the skills to focus and manage tasks – is, of course, central to childhood development. Given that, measuring executive function becomes imperative. How does that work? University of Minnesota professors Stephanie M. Carlson & Philip David Zelazo explain their research and the powerful tool they’ve created. 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
“Our health system is failing women” are the unequivocal opening words of a report issued this past spring by Early...
As childcare centers, preschools and other early education settings strive to stretch every penny, they often face daunting challenges in...
Building Young Brains When Schools Are Closed, Part 2: Online Tips and Activities
Our Top Tips for Parents and Caregivers
This is part 2 of a a three-part series. Read Part 1 (Offline Activities) and Part 3 (Outdoor Tips). How...
Summer’s here, and the time is right for… helping our kids hold onto what they learned during this extraordinary year....
What would happen if we prioritized children’s potential? That’s the question implicitly asked and explicitly answered in the recent paper...
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.
Though family and faith are at the core of traditional Latino culture, and strong support for education is a powerful...
