Child Brain Development

Effective early learning should not be a race, but instead a long, pleasant walk. Pushing children too hard or too fast is not t...

Babies and toddlers can start to be shown and told numbers and letters a lot earlier than generally practiced, even before they...

– During their first weeks, most newborns cry for about two hours a day – or night! The crying of a baby has a powerful effect o...

When children start school, their mastery of numeracy and literacy fundamentals is the most important factor in predicting subse...

– According to a small population-based, longitudinal study, children raised in poverty show brain development deficits and scor...

Some parents and educators still believe that the young brain is fragile and that early childhood is a time of innocence and thu...