How the Stories Kids Tell Shape Their Worlds
A conversation with Andrei Cimpian of NYU’s Cognitive Development Lab
Why am I having trouble counting when my friends aren’t? Is it because I’m not smart? How come Mom quit...
In reviewing the extensive body of research on children’s language development, you might find yourself looking around for some fathers....
Anyone who has spent time around a toddler knows their signature cries of “No!” and “Mi-i-ine!”—often some of the first...
Babies and small children might not immediately come to mind when we think about people dealing with chronic stress. But...
If you were to ask a group of Latinx dads if they speak in any special way to their babies,...
Nobody studies early childhood for purely academic reasons; researchers’ studies hope to improve the lives of real kids. And the...
Music, emotion and language are all tied up together. Neuroscientist Alistair Jennings has written that the brain “processes musical syntax...
When Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,...
It’s long been clear that children who grow up in poverty struggle later in their lives, experiencing everything from increased...
What do you do when the world is turned upside-down? Once you stop panicking, you listen. That’s the core value...
