For many parents, the formula shortage isn’t over; it has become a gnawing ongoing element of their lives. And for...
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An increasing number of pediatric care facilities employ child life specialists—trained, certified professionals who focus on young patients’ experiences and...
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 Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,...
New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the nation’s oldest and largest teaching hospitals. They're upping their early childhoold development game with an online curriculum that demonstrates how pediatric residents can promote brain development and help strengthen parent-child relationships within the confines of routine well-child visits
Recently, the anthropologist James Peacock III told me about the night in 1964 when his newborn daughter Louly had swallowed...
Book Review: What the Eyes Don’t See: Fueled by Idealism, Backed by Science
How a Pediatrician Confronted a Public Health Crisis and Rocked a Nation
Hanna-Attisha’s riveting first-person account of the public health catastrophe that has become known as the Flint water crisis not only lays out the facts of how a government poisoned its own people; it lays open the heart of a doctor who swore an oath to protect the health and lives of the children affected.
Anyone acquainted with telenovelas—those Spanish-speaking cousins of soap opera—recognizes the characters and themes: Love triangles! Family secrets! Ruthless bad guys!...
Every year, ZERO TO THREE presents a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of “significant and enduring contributions to improving the...
There are more than 19,000 cities and towns and more than 13,000 school districts in the United States, and it’s...
The trauma of COVID-19 is widespread but not evenly distributed. Some communities are suffering more than others. The Commonwealth of Virginia has seen encouraging numbers lately, but of course it is not out of the woods. A recent Town Hall for Richmond-area parents featured...
Mind in the Making: 10 Years of Keeping the Fire Burning in Children’s Eyes
Research Becomes a Book; A Book Becomes a Movement
Not all adventurers wear rugged clothes and pith helmets; some carry laptops, notebooks and pens. But all are driven by the same impulse: They have a question and they won’t rest until they have an answer that satisfies them. “What’s over that mountain?” “Where does this river go?”
In the case for Ellen Galinsky, author of more than 100 books and reports and a self-described “research adventurer,” the driving question in 2000 was, “How do we keep the fire burning in children’s eyes?”
