Maryland Family Network

We’ll go On the Record to speak with the Maryland Family Network, a resource for families and child-care providers, about child well-being and services for low income families, and with ShareBaby about connecting families to free diapers and infant essentials.

Finding child care is often difficult. With frequent relocations, deployments, and distance from extended family, it can be especially hard for military…

January 8, 2014Children learn through experience – both success and failure. So, children learn from their victories, and also through scraped knees, and…

December 25, 2013Playing in and with boxes is great fun for kids, and it's also a learning opportunity. It's empowering because the child gets to decide…

Strengthening Families is an approach to promoting healthy family functioning. Taken together, protective and promotive factors increase the probability…

From birth, children are intensely engaged in learning how to learn. They are propelled by motivation, attitudes, and habits that experts call "approaches…

November 6, 2013Preschool plays an important role in preparing children to succeed in kindergarten. Publicly funded pre-K helps ensure that children of…

November 13, 2013From birth to age five, children experience a surge in brain growth and cognitive ability that sets the framework for all future…

November 27, 2013You often hear it said that “Children are resilient” – but perhaps not as resilient as we’d like to believe. There is staggering evidence…