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Books for Black History Month

By |2023-02-22T20:52:38+00:00February 15th, 2023|Categories: Brain, Literacy|

February is Black History Month. More than a date on the calendar, this is an opportunity to seek out the stories of our past that shape our culture, and become active participants in creating our cultural narrative. Black history is American history. February is the month that we are reminded to recognize and integrate our rich [...]

This Holiday, Give a Child a Billion Neurons

By |2023-02-22T20:52:47+00:00December 24th, 2022|Categories: Brain|

The holidays offer a special opportunity to develop a child’s brain. A child’s brain is more than 80% developed by the time they are three years old. This is proven by science. From birth to three years old, billions of neuron connections are made in your child’s brain. When parent’s and loving, trusted family members [...]

World Breastfeeding Week 2020

By |2020-08-03T19:21:43+00:00August 3rd, 2020|Categories: Baby, Breastfeeding|

Each year, the first week of August is recognized as World Breastfeeding Week; the theme of World Breastfeeding Week 2020 is “Support breastfeeding for a healthier planet”.  Three Key Years hopes to increase the awareness surrounding the science that support the benefits of breastfeeding.  The security and bond between mother and child has always been a [...]

A Golden Opportunity

By |2020-03-27T19:51:38+00:00March 27th, 2020|Categories: Brain, Early Development|

We are living in challenging, unprecedented times. The hour-to-hour uncertainty of the Covid 19 Pandemic has created stress for families around the globe. We are “Sheltering in Place”, schools have been closed and parents are working from home. In adversity there is creativity and before us there is a golden opportunity for families to share valuable [...]

The Most Important Number in America is Learning Readiness at Age Four

By |2023-01-26T20:04:13+00:00August 26th, 2019|Categories: Baby, Brain, Early Development|

The Institute for InterGroup Understanding has maintained an ongoing campaign to raise awareness about early brain development and what parents, teachers, and communities can do to promote neural connectivity in children’s brains.  Outlined below are the key points from the full length article. Children Need to be Learning Ready by Age Four Parents, teachers and communities [...]

Three Key Years Launches a Grandparent’s Campaign

By |2019-07-10T21:24:00+00:00June 8th, 2019|Categories: Brain, Literacy|

In May 2019, threekeyyear.org launched a Grandparent’s Campaign to raise awareness regarding how Grandparents have the unique ability to very directly help their grandchildren build stronger brains and a sense of being emotionally secure. Babies learn by interacting with trusted adults. The Three Key Years Grandparent’s Campaign provides tools and content that can be shared among [...]

Cuddling Actually Strengthens Your Baby’s Genes

By |2023-01-26T19:53:21+00:00July 28th, 2018|Categories: Baby, Brain, Early Development|

Amazing new science about the huge value and the direct immediate impact and the powerful long-term benefit that results from cuddling our children in the first weeks and months of life now shows us that our genetic programing actually changes in a positive way for children who are cuddled. That is an amazing discovery. Epigenetics [...]

Not Teaching Parents About Early Brain Development Is A Massive and Damaging Public Health Failure

By |2017-07-18T15:53:43+00:00July 17th, 2017|Categories: Baby, Brain, Early Development, IQ|

The biggest single public health deficit and failure in America today is the fact that almost no parents of newborn children have been told or taught that they can improve their child’s learning abilities significantly by exercising their baby’s brain in the first three years of life. The basic biological science on that issue is absolutely [...]

Breastfeeding premature babies boosts their IQ later in life, research finds

By |2017-02-24T20:35:59+00:00February 1st, 2017|Categories: Baby, Brain, Breastfeeding, Early Development, IQ|

July 29,2016 Independent -- Premature babies which are breastfed during their first month have higher IQs later in life, research has suggested. The infants have been found to have larger volumes of certain brain regions at term equivalent and have better IQs, academic achievement, working memory and motor function. Research, published in The Journal of Paediatrics, followed [...]

Breast-feeding, IQ and learning levels for children

By |2022-08-30T16:39:41+00:00January 17th, 2017|Categories: Baby, Brain, Breastfeeding, Early Development, IQ|Tags: |

September 3, 2016 Institute for InterGroup Understanding The attached research study about breast-feeding premature infants should go a very long way in reinforcing the high value of breast-feeding to children. The researchers looked at a sample of premature babies and compared the IQ levels of the children who had been fed breast milk during their [...]

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