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Being Mom To A Middle Schooler Can Be The Toughest Gig Of All
NPR: Although her oldest child, Ben, is 10 years old, Andrea Scher, 44, feels like a new mom again. Scher suffered from maternal depression after Ben was born, eventually recovering with the help of antidepressants
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In Memoriam: Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Past APS Board Member Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a world-renowned developmental and cognitive neuroscientist, passed away Dec. 19, 2016 after a long illness.
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Remembering Jerome Bruner
A series of tributes to Jerome “Jerry” Bruner, who died in 2016 at the age of 100, reflects the seminal contributions that led him to be known as the founder of the cognitive revolution.
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How to Predict a Baby’s First Word
The Atlantic: After about a year, give or take, of staring and babbling, babies eventually begin to say their first words. Mama. Ball. Dog. Millions of parents all over the world know this. Now, researchers
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Traces of Times Lost
The Atlantic: The slippery baby in the plastic blue tub cringes when her daddy, holding a drippy orange washcloth, leaks a bit of water in her face. He is bathing her for the first time.
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SRCD Call for Letters of Intent for Two New Programs Focusing on State Early Childhood Policy
The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) is seeking letters of intent for two new State Policy Programs that it will be piloting in 2017–2018: the Pre-doctoral State Policy Scholars Program in Early Learning, funded by the Bill