Pick up leaves, pick up rocks, walk on the fence curb. It is prime time to listen to a child if you are walking to grocery store or to...

By listening to our children we can uncover misunderstandings they might have. My granddaughter thought that a robot was a T-shirt...

Halloween is confusing for little kids. Just when they were beginning to make sense of their world, everyone looks and acts different....

One mom at Educare was concerned that when she let her two-year-old daughter read the pictures of the book because her daughter didn’t...

The moms at Educare thought a lot about how to read a book to a toddler. Babies like board books, because at first all they see are the...

Last week at Educare, a child care center in Chicago, a Focus Group of 17 moms and dads met to critique a book we’re writing. Their ideas...

Sometimes we forget that if a child doesn’t understand the words, she cannot understand the story. The very first step is for us to tell...

We all THINK we know how to teach a child to read. We teach them the ABCs and phonics just like a teacher does. But teachers depend on...

For centuries scientists have been confused about learning to talk. It turns out that a child’s brain cells are learning language even...

Let’s talk about food. First, name it: milk, broccoli, oatmeal, carrots, chicken, eggs, cereal, and cake. Then name how it smells:...