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Foundationages 0-3

Teaching kids household tasks: show, don't just tell

Why walking through the steps beside your child works better than reminding them again

Weekly experiment5 min
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Foundationages 0-3

How to talk to your baby: eye contact syncs infant brains

New brain research explains why looking into your baby's eyes during everyday moments is the earliest form of language learning

15-min practice5 min
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Foundationages 0-3

Co-regulation: how your calm becomes your child's calm

What Harvard's research on stress balance means for the moments before the meltdown ends

Multi-week practice6 min
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Foundationages 0-3

The three-step sequence - a powerful method for helping your family navigate transitions

Putting the research on early childhood stability to work

Weekly experiment5 min
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Foundationages 0-3

Why the same bedtime story, told the same way, builds something we used to underestimate

Donald Winnicott, writing in 1965, called it the holding environment, the steady, predictable, ordinary care that builds a young child's confidence that the world is reliable.…

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