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...
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 babies are learning to walk, they fall on average 17 times an hour. Given that frequency of falls, you...
In Part I of this interview, Dr. Joshua Sparrow, executive director of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, delves into the legacy...
Recently, the anthropologist James Peacock III told me about the night in 1964 when his newborn daughter Louly had swallowed...
Although trying to keep up with a toddler can feel like opening day at the goat rodeo, the movement between...
