The First Five Years

STEM or Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics is an educational philosophy and practice which has really gained momentum of late. But it’s…

Decades of psychological experiments with children as young as two-year-old have shown that children lie. But lying is not just normal, it’s a sign of…

Postpartum depression affects an estimated one out of nine women. These new moms must not only must acclimate to raising a newborn child, but also with…

Children have been sitting in front of screens ever since the advent of television. From TVs to smart phones and laptops to LeapFrogs children and adults…

Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman explains a simple idea in which everyone profits: invest in little kids.

If Maryland increases the Child Care Subsidy rates so that we are subsidizing parents up to the federally-recommended 75% of child care settings in their…

When a young child experiences regular bouts of food insecurity they are more likely to be unprepared for kindergarten than children who know where the…

We’ve all made bad decisions before. But adverse experiences during the first five years of life can make it very difficult to ever make good decisions.

Recent research suggest that the quality of what is read to children during the first year of life may be just as important to their development as the…

Spanking a child has long-term consequences. New research suggests that people who are spanked during early childhood have a greater likelihood of…