To get started, select an age range from the pull-down menu and click on it. Depending on the age range, different hotspots on the brain will appear. Click on a hotspot to reveal questions to find out how a baby's brain develops during this period of brain growth. You'll also learn what you can do to enrich a very young child's development.
Smart Parenting Smarter Kids covers all ages from birth through the teen years. It provides solid scientific information over a range of topics like nutrition, exercise, play, sleep, differences between boys' and girls' brains, how to raise a child's IQ, attention, attention and distraction, video game and Internet addiction, the right and wrong way to praise kids, special needs brains, and more. Each chapter contains practical tips and suggestions.
In 2009, the Center launched a collaboration with the Interactive Media Division of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC) to develop and test new ways of communicating the science of early childhood development using interactive media. The “Brain Hero” video, depicting how actions by a range of people in the family and community impact child development, is the first product of this collaboration. This 3-minute video adapts the visual sensibility of interactive game models to a video format.
The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty has an interesting article on their website titled “Building a Foundation for Prosperity on the Science of Early Childhood Development, by Jack Shonkoff, M.D.
Responding to increasing awareness and concerns, the MIT Young Adult Development Project was created in 2005 to analyze, distill, and disseminate key findings about young adult development, findings that shed light on the unique strengths and dramatic challenges for this extraordinary period.
