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First Things First: Five steps to help develop a child’s brain

Did you know

– Babies can hear three months before they are born?

– Eighty percent of a child’s brain development happens in the first three years?

– On average, the ratio of reprimands, warnings or scoldings to praise or encouragement is 12 to 1 for children in low-income families?

– A major study showed that by age 2, less-advantaged children were six months behind the highly-advantaged in language processing skills?