Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development
1What parents should know
The international framework for early childhood. It names five components of nurturing care - good health, adequate nutrition, safety and security, responsive caregiving and opportunities for early learning.
2Sources and check record
The research behind it
Start with the finding, then check the study type, source and limits. We select research by topic; a programme’s overall effect does not establish the effect of each activity.In a study of 4- to 6-year-olds, the number of back-and-forth conversational turns with adults predicted activity in language areas of the brain better than the number of words children heard.
9-month-old infants learned Mandarin speech sounds from live sessions with a person, but not from the same material shown on video or audio.
Related
Checklists of what most children can do at 12 ages from 2 months to 5 years, covering social, language, thinking and movement skills.
Explains how babies and young children learn about people, objects and language by experimenting, much like small scientists.
A university explainer about the back-and-forth between a young child and a caring adult: notice a look, sound or gesture, respond, and leave room for the child to respond again.