Unstructured Play and Self-Regulation Study Shows Children Need Time and Space to Make Their Own Fun
Common wisdom dictates that young children thrive on structure; as a result, caregivers may feel pressured to fill up children’s...
Unleashing the Learning Potential of Latino Infants
New Report from UnidosUS Draws Attention to the Crisis—and Proposes Solutions
When our educational system fails to make the most of the talent entrusted to it, not only do children and...
Developed in the 1990s, Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) aim to increase the availability of high-quality early education programs,...
When an international team of researchers surveyed humor development in children from 1 to 47 months, they asked parents to...
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...
