“Five- and six-year-old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, May 1965 In...
Building Young Brains When Schools Are Closed, Part 1: Offline Activities
Three-part Series Offers Top Tips for Parents and Caregivers
This is part 1 of a a three-part series. Read Part 2 (Online Activities) and Part 3 (Outdoor Tips). We...
Nobody studies early childhood for purely academic reasons; researchers’ studies hope to improve the lives of real kids. And the...
Babies and small children might not immediately come to mind when we think about people dealing with chronic stress. But...
Clear the Dance Floor: Baby Steps Happening Here
Recent Study Explores Factors that Influence Development of Walking Skill
Whoever decided to use baby steps as a metaphor for timid, tenuous beginnings had it all wrong. Baby steps are...
When an international team of researchers surveyed humor development in children from 1 to 47 months, they asked parents to...
Crying is Easy; Laughing is Hard
The Science and Wonder Behind a Baby’s Laugh
The game of peekaboo is a universal language—and there’s way more to it than you might imagine. You know the...
The scientific method isn’t just for scientists. Being curious about something, trying to figure it out, forming an idea about what’s going on and then testing it by trial and error are as natural to young children as breathing and learning to crawl.
If parents and caregivers had hard evidence of a tool that would positively influence their child’s IQ, vocabulary and other...
A new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country...
