Early childhood education can boost children’s earnings later in life. Long-term analyses suggest that early childhood education can increase earnings in adulthood by 1.3 to 3.5 percent. These earnings gains alone are bigger than the costs of such programs.

While some time watching a favorite cartoon or interacting with a learning app isn’t harmful, excessive screen time as a replacement for real human interaction impedes brain development. Children have to be active in their learning experiences, including sensory, language, and physical activities, to be fully engrossed in learning (and growing). Creating limits on screen […]

Toddlers are showing you that the foundation you built during their babyhood is paying off by interacting with others, enjoying the world around them, and doing what toddlers do best — exploring. Ensure that the environment is safe and that allow your child to explore, even if it isn’t with formal toys. Even a crinkled-up […]

Children learn more in the first 6 years of life. This is the period in which they will build a foundation for learning.