What nurtures the brain to optimum intelligence and stability?It is a secret hiding in plain sight: the most important thing we can do for our children is to have conversations with them. The way you
The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, explains why the most importantand astoundingly simplething you can do for your child’s future success in life
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A detailed, impassioned argument from an early childhood development specialist that will change the way we think about the practical importance of the parent-child bond Weaving together neuroscience, strategies for parents, and policy prescriptions with powerful stories of adversity and hope, Dr. Dana Suskind, founder of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, offers a revelatory new look at early childhood and the often-unrecognized essentials for optimal brain development that parents are in the best position to deliver. Written with award-winning science writer Lydia Denworth, Parent Nation uses brain science to lead us ultimately to a society delivering far more robust support for the first years of life. The natural follow-up to Dr. Suskind's Thirty Million Words (Dutton, 2015), which revolutionized the way we understand parent-child communication, showing how important it is for children to hear as many spoken words as they can, Parent Nation goes further, definitively describing t
