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This information is most vital for parents with infants. It is also helpful for child care providers working with infants.
We always try to put scientific research into basic everyday language that is useful to you or someone you may know.
Experiences really are important, especially healthy experiences we give our infants and toddlers. Do not wait until they arrive at school for them to be exposed to certain things such as the museum, instruments, age appropriate books, toddler performances. A party is an experience they will have don't allow that to be the main experience you give them. Even when they are in school there are still experience you can give them.
The below excerpt is food for thought...
This information is most vital for parents with infants. It is also helpful for child care providers working with infants.
We always try to put scientific research into basic everyday language that is useful to you or someone you may know.
Experiences really are important, especially healthy experiences we give our infants and toddlers. Do not wait until they arrive at school for them to be exposed to certain things such as the museum, instruments, age appropriate books, toddler performances. A party is an experience they will have don't allow that to be the main experience you give them. Even when they are in school there are still experience you can give them.
The below excerpt is food for thought...
...understanding that development is influenced by an interaction between nature
and nurture; that everyone is born with a unique genetic predisposition, but a large part of development is very much influenced by
personal experience and by the environment in which children live.So, one point that was made very strongly in the report was
that this long-standing scientific debate of nature versus nurture is, from a
science perspective, a dead issue. There's no such
thing as nature without nurture or nurture without nature.
importance of paying more attention to the social and
emotional development of young children, not instead of the more traditional
focus on their intellectual development and their language development, but equally important.
And the reason for that is because there is a very strong science of emotional
development and social development. We have a great
deal of brain research that tells us how emotions are very much embedded in the
architecture of the brain and the function of the brain.
So the report
was very clear, particularly in speaking to some of the debates going on in our
country right now about whether we should be focusing more, for example, in
Head Start, on early literacy experiences. Our conclusion from the science is
that absolutely early literacy
experiences are very important for young children, but they're no more
important than paying attention to children's social health and their emotional
well-being.
Source: Children of the Code, interview with Dr. Shonkoff
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