Not exact matches
Introducing solid food before your baby reaches four months
raises her risk of increased weight gain and obesity, both in
infancy and
early childhood.
Raising a gifted child can be exhausting and demanding, and the demands can start as
early as
infancy.
In order to
raise a healthy child, you need to make sure he or she gets moving from as
early as
infancy.
With
early childhood education recognized as an effective strategy for
raising school achievement and reducing achievement gaps, there is increased demand for skilled, knowledgeable education leadership for
infancy, preschool through third grade (P — 3).
The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children
raised in poverty from
infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in
early childhood.
The BEIP is a longitudinal study of a sample of children
raised from
early infancy in institutions in Bucharest, Romania, and the only randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional rearing for abandoned children (61).
The children who left their parents and were
raised by grandparents in
infancy fail to establish an attachment relationship with their parents in their
early childhood; instead they may become more attached to their grandparents.