Infants and toddlers love their hands and feet for good reason. They can put socks on their feet and gloves on their hands. They can step...

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,