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The brain doesn’t fully develop until about the age of 25. This fact is sometimes quite surprising and eye opening to most adults. It can also be somewhat overwhelming for new parents and professionals who are interacting with babies and young children every day, to contemplate. It is essential to realize however, that the greatest time of development occurs in the years prior to kindergarten. And even more critical to understand is that by age three 85 percent of the core structures of the...

PRB just published a new research brief that may be of interest: Among common forms of discipline, only reasoning with a child is associated with positive developmental outcomes, according to a new analysis by Kaitlin Paxton Ward and colleagues from the University of Michigan and University of Nevada.[1] You can read the full brief here: https://www.prb.org/articles/is-your-child-misbehaving-try-reasoning-with-them/ References: 1. Kaitlin P. Ward, et al. “Associations Between 11 Parental...