Brain development
7 articles
How Lullabies Affect Your Baby's Brain: The Neuroscience of Musical Bonding
The strange thing about singing to a small baby is how much is going on that neither of you can see. The baby quiets, settles, maybe drifts off — and...
Why Sleep Matters for Brain Development in Young Children
Sleep is the part of the day where it looks like nothing is happening. In a young child's brain, that is exactly when the most consequential work is h...
How Physical Play Supports Brain Development
"Get them outside" is sometimes treated as folk wisdom — pleasant but optional. The neuroscience and child-development literature of the last 30 years...
How Music Play Develops Cognitive Skills
The cognitive case for music with young children sits in an unusual spot — both real and routinely overstated. The research from Nina Kraus's Brainvol...
Why Early Emotional Support Matters
The emotional support your child receives in their first five years isn't just about making them feel better in the moment—it's building the foundatio...
Child Development 0–5: Milestones, Motor Skills, and Language
Child development is faster, messier, and more personal than the milestone charts make it look. One baby walks at ten months and says nothing for anot...
What Is Happening in a Toddler's Brain During a Tantrum
A toddler mid-meltdown — screaming, kicking, bright red, inconsolable about the wrong colour cup — is in a state of genuine neurological crisis. That'...