Reach Out and Read partners, Nemours BrightStart! have released the 2nd Annual Reading Readiness Snapshot for America’s Preschoolers – a guest blog post from Laura Bailet and Kathy Ingram at Nemours BrightStart!
Learning to read is a challenging task for the brain, and one of the most important developmental tasks facing young children.…
Screen-Free Week is approaching! From May 1-7 share in the joys of life beyond the screen and engage in activities that prepare your child for the future–such as reading! A guest blog post from Jean Rogers at Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood!…
New research shows that positive parenting can overcome the
effects of poverty on healthy brain development in
adolescents. In a
report published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, Brody and colleagues described a neuroimaging study
demonstrating that supportive parenting prevented the reduced
growth of certain areas of the brain that occurred as a response to
living in poverty.…
A guest blog written by Rachelle Wilber, a freelance writer.
Today, fairy tales may just be something your kids want to hear over and over again before bedtime, but modern stories that are beloved by children like the wildly acclaimed “Frozen” can be traced back thousands of years.…