Resource Library

Here you’ll find handouts with suggestions for games and activities to do with children of different ages. They can be shared at well child visits or when caregivers are looking for support with behavior. These activities can promote child-caregiver bonding, executive function skills, and build children’s brains through play.

How to Motivate Children: Science-Based Approaches for Parents, Caregivers, and Teachers…

This page contains a collection of resources about the concept of “serve and return” interactions. It includes an introduction to the basics of serve and return and the science behind it and includes videos that can be shared with caregivers about how serve and return interactions build brains. For…

This brief summarizes essential scientific findings from the Center publications, “The Foundations of Lifelong Health Are Built in Early Childhood”.

Building Babies’ Brains Through Play: Mini Parenting Master Class…

Stress and Resilience: How Toxic Stress Affects Us, and What We Can Do About It…

Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development…