We would like to announce awards of $8,446,420 in grants to organizations focused on community health and wellness.
Infants, Toddlers and Television
April 4, 2016
Despite marketing claims that some television programs and DVDs help infants and toddlers learn, recent studies show that TV provides only empty calories for a child’s growing brain. The following research brief reviews the evidence that parents and caregivers of young children should take television off the menu.
Temperament can be defined as the way a young child acts and responds to different situations, caregivers, and strangers. It’s apparent from birth, and it’s unconnected to the kind of parenting we receive or the environment in which we live.
Last month we shared a broad overview of social and emotional development during your child’s first years of life. This month, we’ll begin exploring the social and emotional mechanisms that guide healthy growth. Let’s begin with temperament.
In numerous ways every day, with your help, we search for just the right words to engage more of the public and to make them understand the importance of brain development for the future of our children - and our community. What would our youngest children want us to say that everyone will hear and remember? Four words: Touch, Talk, Read, Play.
Each New Year brings with it feelings of anticipation, excitement, and a renewed hope and commitment for positive change. 2016 is no different.