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Caregiver Handouts: Games and Activities that Build Brains and Executive Function Skills

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.

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Early Brain and Child Development 101: Why Peekaboo Matters

For Medical Students and Residents In medical school, we learn the science behind health and disease. How do nephrons filter blood that runs through the network of capillaries in the glomerulus, and what disease occurs when that process goes awry? How do myocytes conduct electricity, and how do aberrations in…

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Executive Function: Information for Providers

This handout helps explain what executive function skills are, why they are important and how supporting their development can promote healthy child and adolescent development.

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How to Help Families and Staff Build Resilience During the Covid-19 Outbreak

What can we do to build up and strengthen resilience during the COVID-19 outbreak? How can we build resilience to plan ahead for future times of crisis? This resource, with practical tips and suggestions for providers looking to support caregivers and each other, presents three science-based ways that we can…

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

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

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InBrief: The Foundations of Lifelong Health

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

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Maternal Depression Can Undermine the Development of Young Children

This working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child and the National Forum on Early Childhood Policy and Programs examines why addressing the consequences of serious depression in parents and caregivers could support the future prosperity and well-being of both children and society as a whole.

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InBrief: The Science of Early Childhood Development

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InBrief: The Impact of Early Adversity on Children’s Development

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Excessive Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the Developing Brain

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Persistent Fear and Anxiety Can Affect Young Children’s Learning and Development

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InBrief: The Science of Neglect

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The Science of Neglect: The Persistent Absence of Responsive Care Disrupts the Developing Brain

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InBrief: Applying the Science of Child Development in Child Welfare Systems

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InBrief: Early Childhood Mental Health

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Young Children Develop in an Environment of Relationships

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Children’s Emotional Development is Built into the Architecture of their Brain

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Early Exposure to Toxic Substances Damages Brain Architecture

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The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to Shape Brain Architecture

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Early Experiences Can Alter Gene Expression and Affect Long-Term Development

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Connecting the Brain to the Rest of the Body: Early Childhood Development and Lifelong Health Are Deeply Intertwined

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InBrief: Understanding the Science of Motivation

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Understanding Motivation: Building the Brain Architecture That Supports Learning, Health, and Community Participation

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InBrief: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning

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Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System: How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function

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InBrief: The Science of Resilience

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Genes, Environments, and Time: The Biology of Adversity and Resilience

This February 2021 article by Tom Boyce, Pat Levitt, Fernando Martinez, Bruce McEwen and Jack Shonkoff article in the journal Pediatrics is one of two companion pieces. The article uses a gene-environment-time framework to look at the roles of genetic variation, environmental context, and developmental timing as they relate to…

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Leveraging the Biology of Adversity and Resilience to Transform Pediatric Practice

This February 2021 article by Jack P. Shonkoff, Thomas Boyce, Pat Levitt, Fernando D. Martinez and Bruce McEwen is one of two companion pieces in the journal Pediatrics. The article highlights how the different outcomes experienced by children are shaped by ongoing adaptations to context that begin very early and…

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