After food and sleep, what a toddler wants most is to be understood. After centuries of believing that infants were born as blank slates,...

If children must hear and use a word 24 times before 80% of them can remember it, teachers will need help making sure special words get...

If you are a parent of young children, your parents might not have prepared you to grow up with a toolkit for surviving a pandemic. For...

It is possible to have a conversation with a toddler who doesn’t talk, if a mama does just a little ...Read More

Conversation Starter #8 Cook It, Eat It, Clean It Up - Ages 1 ½ to 3 years old

Let’s talk about the men in a baby’s life. Clearly all three babies in this photo are totally interested in the two men.

Question 1: Who is your child’s first teacher? Question 2: What is a teachable moment?

Every parent has what it takes to be a brain builder

Give Our Children the Words They will Need to Save the Planet

Make-Up-a-Story A good conversation can be had while looking at a photograph together.

SAY-WHAT-YOU-SEE Babies understand what we say to them long before they can say a single word.

Again and Again and Again Eddie, Why did you stick your head and hands through the hole in that steel beam?

A visit to the farm in the Lincoln Park Zoo to touch a baby chick is proof that it is springtime in Chicago,