Early life experiences have disproportionate importance in organizing the mature brain and are directly connected to children's optimal development. B.D. Perry, MD
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It costs Canada $2.5 billion every year for remedial education because of delayed interventions or negative early experiences Child Care Education Foundation
If the first few years of life include support for growth in cognition, language, motor skills, adaptive skills and social-emotional functioning, the child is more likely to succeed in school and later contribute to society. Martha Erickson and Karen Kurz-Riemer, authors of
Infants, Toddlers and Families: A Framework for Intervention The difference between the two outlooks – children who are confident and optimistic versus those who expect to fail – starts to take shape in the first few years of life. Parents need to understand how their actions can help generate the confidence, the curiosity, the pleasure in learning and the understanding of limits” that help children succeed in life. T. Berry Brazelton, Harvard pediatrician
Early childhood development programs are rarely portrayed as economic development initiatives…and this is a mistake. Such programs often appear at the bottom of economic development lists. They should be at the top. Studies find that well-focused investments in early childhood development yield high public as well as private returns Rob Grunewald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Doris Bergen Ph.D
Young children learn the most important things not by being told but by constructing knowledge for themselves in interaction with the physical world and with other children—and the way they do this is by playing. Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson and Eva Johansson, Educational Researchers
Supporting children’s play is more active than simply saying you believe that it is important. When children’s play culture is taken seriously, the conditions which make it flourish are carefully created. Children’s play culture does not just happen naturally. Play needs time and space. It needs mental and material stimulation to be offered in abundance. Creating a rich play environment means creating good learning environments for children. Marjatta Kalliala
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