“We know that poverty gets under the skin, and when you’re exposed to stress or trauma related to poverty, your whole body responds." Important Early Learning Nation piece on how emotional regulation skills help mitigate the impact of those stressors. earlylearningnation.com/2024/08/stress…

When parents are supported, kids can thrive. #StartingAtZero

Important insight in nature on how helpful mothers from low-income households find various individual and structural parenting interventions to be. Their perspectives are nuanced, vast, and belong at the center of early childhood research. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Newborns don't come with instruction manuals, but thanks to a White House pilot program that has the potential to expand with bipartisan support, they can come with supply kits. One small step towards more supportive family policies. bit.ly/3YIFWHn HHS.gov

A beautiful night for baseball if you’re not too concerned with the baseball ⚾️

The best part of this lovely Penn Medicine Alumni piece on my amazing parents is a photo caption: Bob & Leslie Suskind on the only continent where they have not worked and lived, Antarctica. Leslie said they tried but the penguins refused to give them jobs ❤️ alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/psom/in…

My book, The Daycare Myth, arrives Sept. 27. And I couldn’t be more excited to get it into your hands. The book explores the disconnect between what we know & what we do when it comes to the early years - and it’s my hope that it will spark an important bipartisan conversation

'If we can accept that there is not one correct way to run your family, we can focus on using government policy to give parents more choices instead of fewer.' So grateful to Emily Oster for training her data-drive lens on the issues the matter most. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Dr. Dana Suskind and I have recently argued that every organization should have a scale unit ideas.repec.org/p/feb/framed/0… This is because the synergies can create a recipe to avoid many of the scale-up problems that I discuss in the Voltage Effect. Bell Labs once housed both the

Excited to share new research on the long-term impact of TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health interventions on preschool-aged children’s language skills through promoting parental knowledge and parent-child conversational turns. In short: Supporting families early pays dividends. doi.org/10.1016/j.acap…

'This reframing underscores how foolhardy it is for Americans’ child-care needs to be addressed via a set of siloed policies and funding streams rather than through comprehensive legislation.' Important piece by the always excellent Elliot Haspel. theatlantic.com/family/archive…

In such a great company!! ☀️☀️❤️❤️ Dr. Dana Suskind John A. List Vincent Crawford

A critically important advisory from the Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General. We are so grateful to see the needs of parents receive this level of attention. And we know, that when parents receive the support they need, children will benefit as well.

My book, The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It) is beginning to hit mailboxes. I’m so grateful for the early feedback, including this lovely blurb from the one and only Ms. Rachel! You can order from the link in my

Excited for our ⁦Russell Sage Foundation⁩ funded work in today's ⁦PNASNews⁩. This information experiment shows shift in parental investments in children vis-à-vis economic mobility beliefs. Economic mobility and parents’ opportunity hoarding | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Just pre-ordered "The Music Never Died" by the wonderful Mark Swartz, whose brilliance and giant heart transcend the early childhood work for which I know him. Thanks for expanding my world, friend! ❤️ amazon.com/Music-Never-Di…

Happy #ReadABookDay! One of our favorite strategies for increasing talk & interaction with littles ones is "Book Sharing." There's no need to read every word on every page. Talking about whatever catches a child's attention on the page is valuable & enjoyable for everyone!