Compare day care programs by age, schedule, and learning goals to choose structured early education that fits your child and ...

This will also help to determine whether this approach leads to changes in child-care environments, educator practices and children's movement. Once the final stages of testing and evaluating the ...

Physical activity—primarily in the form of active play—promotes young children's physical, mental, emotional and social health. It can also influence how active people will be later in life. It's ...

This story was originally published by The Daily Yonder. Chris Nelson teaches preschool in rural Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, but not in the school or child care center most ...

Not every child fits perfectly into the mold of a traditional childcare environment. Some kids need more attention from a teacher. Others may feel overstimulated in a large group. Still others ...

Parents in rural Vermont can drive more than an hour to reach a center- or school-based pre-K program where the state covers tuition for just ten hours a week. (Photo by BBC Creative / Unsplash) Chris ...

Dr. Dickens is a physiologist who studies stress and the founder of the Maternal Stress Project. Dr. Hutner is a reproductive psychiatrist and a co-founder of Phoebe, a mental health platform for ...

I have been involved in early care and education for four decades and the early care and education system has been in a perpetual crisis in one form or another. In the 70s the crisis in the system was ...

Healthy movement behaviours support young children’s physical, mental and social development, and shape lifelong habits. These habits include engaging in physical activity, reducing sedentary screen ...

Physical activity — primarily in the form of active play — promotes young children’s physical, mental, emotional and social health. It can also influence how active people will be later in life. It’s ...