Diverse beliefs, practices and purposes of children’s play in different cultures call for skepticism that Euro-American approaches to child development are best everywhere. Our knowledge…
Professor Jaipaul L. RoopnarineOctober 2018
Long-term impacts of play deprivation during early child development include isolation, depression, reduced self-control and poor resilience. Educators, parents and policy makers should all be…
Stuart BrownOctober 2018
Play with dad could help bridge cognitive, social and emotional learning gaps among low-income children. Please can we stop telling fathers just to pay for…
Professor Natasha J. CabreraOctober 2018
Eight baby development stages are shaped by the rapidly developing brain: (1) gross motor functions, (2) fine motor functions, (3) perception, (4) cognition, (5) verbal…
Professor Sabina PauenSeptember 2018
Eight baby milestones have been discerned and extensively researched: (1) gross motor functions, (2) fine motor functions, (3) perception, (4) cognition, (5) verbal communication, (6)…
Professor Sabina PauenSeptember 2018
Among the factors that can prevent infants from achieving milestones are genetic defects, toxic influences during pregnancy, birth complications and premature birth, perceptual problems that…
Professor Sabina PauenSeptember 2018
Early child development is underpinned by brain development, by genetic and epigenetic inheritance and by physical development. Two key features of early childhood development that…
Duncan Fisher OBEMay 2018
