“Economists have joined the neuroscientists, arguing—with data—that investing in early childhood is the most cost-effective way to affect long-term outcomes like education and employment.” In the first long-form piece for online magazine Quartz, Jenny Anderson brings the science behind parent support interventions to a broader audience.
This article is part of a series on early childhood – Rewiring Childhood – being supported by the Foundation. Quartz, a digital publication covering the global economy, will look globally at the challenges parents and caregivers of young children face, and the ways in which policymakers, NGOs and communities support them through health care, childcare, parental leave, early childhood education, and so on. Among other things, Quartz will explore the role of technology in delivering and scaling this support, interventions which work and do not work, and which countries best support families (and how they do that).
Articles
- October 31: Who looks after the children of the workers who make our clothes?
- October 29: Australia does one simple thing to support first-time parents
- October 9: Rwanda’s radical plan to reduce poverty by harnessing fathers’ love
- September 14: Even the perfect French parent doesn’t have childcare figured out
- September 11: We’re facing a global childcare shortage—and women and children are paying the price
- September 11: An innovative preschool in Qatar is teaching toddlers empathy
- August 13: Kenya hopes its first human milk bank will save infants’ lives
- July 29: America’s youngest kids need good teachers. Why is it so difficult to find them?
- July 24: Malawi is testing using wearables to measure kids’ well-being
- July 23: The treatment of children at the US border is more than a political crisis
- July 15: Even Europe’s most family-friendly countries don’t invest enough in their youngest kids
- June 22: The scientific effort to protect babies from trauma before it happens
- June 11: The dad from that viral baby video is demonstrating a crucial parenting skill
- May 16: The benefits of quality preschool for poor kids may extend to their children
- May 5: Laundromats are playing an unlikely role in the effort to shrink America’s literacy gap
- April 14: Inside India’s ambitious effort to provide early care and education to 400 million kids
- March 10: What it’s like to raise children in the world’s most polluted capital
- February 26: There’s one essential factor in babies’ health that even the most devoted parents may miss
- February 22: Economists explain why kids who watched Sesame Street did better in school
- February 11: Stress is hurting kids’ health. California’s new surgeon general has a plan to help
- January 30: An Indian nonprofit is showing how free childcare at work can help disrupt the poverty cycle
- January 24: California’s new surgeon general changed the way we understand childhood trauma
- December 8: “I try to take their pain away through play”: A healing experiment in Rohingya refugee camps
- December 5: Can play save the world?
- November 28: The most important lessons from the emotionally charged breastfeeding debate
- November 13: New US guidelines recommend preschool kids get three hours of exercise a day
- October 30: Why the Danes encourage their kids to swing axes, play with fire, and ride bikes in traffic
- October 26: Some daycares in Israel are abusing toddlers. A new law aims to make kids safer
- October 22: A new study says countries that ban corporal punishment have less youth violence
- October 21: One city has created a blueprint for tackling the opioid epidemic
- October 19: Singapore is building daycare centers for all its youngest children
- October 9: More employers are extending a key workplace benefit for parents of premature babies
- October 1: The simple thing parents can do to protect kids from obesity and mental-health problems
- September 14: The stress caused by the 2008 financial crisis had a lasting impact on kids and families
- September 8: This is your reminder that 416 migrant kids have still not been reunited with their parents
- September 6: This is the only parenting book you ever really need to read
- September 2: The life-changing class teaching Texas kids resilience after Hurricane Harvey
- August 28: Child care is broken. Silicon Valley thinks it can fix that, too
- August 21: Kids are so over-scheduled that doctors are being told to prescribe play
- August 12: Alexa is very confused by little kids
- August 9: We’ve been ignoring the problem of dads and depression for decades—at a huge cost to kids
- July 31st: The simple post-birth step that dramatically increases babies’ chances of survival
- July 17: France’s World Cup victory is a reminder that nurture—not nature—determines success
- July 13: Dear powerful people, here’s the economic case for investing more in little kids
- July 9: All the scientific support for breastfeeding that the US apparently didn’t read
- July 5: The cost of child care is driving Americans away from parenthood
- June 29: ”Brazil’s audacious plan to fight poverty using neuroscience and parents’ love
- June 27: The instant gratification generation has more patience than kids from the ’60s
- June 21: “The only buffer you have is a parent. Take that away, and everything falls apart.”
- June 15: The incredibly long list of benefits to kids and parents if we took paternity leave seriously
- June 15: The simplest and oldest of toys can be massively helpful to children
- June 14: The shameful state of paid paternal leave worldwide
- June 11: Disadvantaged schools don’t need smaller classes—they need better teachers
- June 7: The pioneering woman who invented a life-saving test for newborns
- June 7: These photos show the joy and awe of new dads bonding with their babies around the world
- June 6: The emerging, devastating evidence that childhood trauma could affect the next generation
- May 25: Can Alexa’s breastfeeding advice give moms the support they need?
- May 25: A new study links early childhood obesity to lower IQ scores
- May 24: A new study shows kids as young as three understand the concept of ownership
- May 14: The key to fixing inequality in education? Teach kids to be curious
- May 12: A letter to moms on all the ways you’re absolutely not screwing up your kids
- May 9: We know how to make programs that help poor kids. The hard part is scaling up
- May 6: The art of writing the perfect lullaby
- April 25: New US guidelines aim to change the sorry state of medical care for new moms
- April 24: Three of the best ways to read books to kids, backed by science
- April 20: The urban design project sneaking puzzles and hopscotch into abandoned lots
- April 16: New research suggests playing with fewer toys is good for kids
- April 8: The free and easy way to help kids develop language skills, according to MIT research
- March 14: Can an AI-powered bot help parents raise better humans?
- March 1: If you want your kid to get a good job, let them play more
- February 21: A groundbreaking study offers undeniable proof that the fight against inequality starts with moms
- February 8: What it’s like to have a baby in a country that actually cares about new moms
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