Happy Mother’s Day from Three Key Years
The bond between a mother and child is immeasurable. In honor of Mother's Day, May 9, 2021, we want to acknowledge and thank all mothers for your unconditional love, care, support and everything you do! Reading to a child in her/his first three years will help her/him to develop a stronger brain. During these Three Key Years, billions of neurons are developed. [...]
Partner Feature: La Clínica Vallejo
At Three Key Years we are committed to educating parents and the policy makers of the importance of brain development in infants and young children. It is crucial to engage children with talking, reading, playing, counting and singing in the first months and years of life. Studies have shown that these interactions give every child an advantage in life. As [...]
World Breastfeeding Week 2020
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 foundation of breastfeeding. In [...]
Free Reading Resources for Our Children
Reading helps your baby develop her vocabulary as soon as she/he is born. Your baby’s brain is making associations with the words you read and the pictures you describe every time you read to her. To help her brain grow stronger, find books she really likes and read them over and over to give her a sense of continuity and connectivity [...]
Reading Helps Your Baby Develop Her/His Vocabulary as Soon as She/He is Born
The guiding principals for building strong brains are simple: During the first Three Key Years of life, Talk. Read. Play. Count. Sing with your children. In this post we want to specifically explore, ‘reading’ with your child(ren). Reading helps your baby develop her/his vocabulary as soon as she/he is born. Your baby’s brain is making associations with the words you read and the pictures [...]
A Golden Opportunity
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 time together. From its [...]