Early Childhood Matters

Early Childhood Matters
Responsive Parenting: A Strategy to Prevent Violence
This edition of Early Childhood Matters addresses responsive parenting and its potential to reduce the incidence of violence against young children.
Early Childhood Matters
Children of Seasonal Migrant Workers
This issue of Early Childhood Matters focuses on an almost invisible population – people who migrate seasonally in search of work, and…
Early Childhood Matters
Learning Begins Early
By the time most kids start preschool, aged around 3, the most important building blocks for learning have already been put in…
Early Childhood Matters
Community Violence and Young Children: Making Space for Hope
This edition of Early Childhood Matters looks at the effects of community violence on young children.
Early Childhood Matters
Living Conditions: The Influence on Young Children’s Health
This edition of Early Childhood Matters explores the links between the living conditions that children grow up in and their health and…
Early Childhood Matters
Early learning: Lessons from scaling up
This edition of Early Childhood Matters looks at the question of how to scale up early learning provision without sacrificing quality. Articles…
Early Childhood Matters
Hidden violence: Protecting young children at home
Violence against young children is often hidden from view when it takes place in the home and the family. Articles in this…
Early Childhood Matters
Young Children in Cities: Challenges and Opportunities
This edition of Early Childhood Matters looks at young children’s experiences of growing up in urban settings.
Early Childhood Matters
Setting our Agenda on Early Learning, Violence and Physical Environment
This edition of Early Childhood Matters offers a first introduction to the Bernard van Leer Foundation’s thinking as we flesh out our…