By Jane Leer In the Nicaraguan Country Office of the Inter-American Development Bank we are busy preparing for the fourth workshop of the initiative No todos los pajaritos son amarillos, to be held this Thursday, September 26th. … [Read more...] about Nicaragua’s chicks
Idea Incubator in Early Child Development
If you have suggestions or opinions on child development topics that you’d like to share, then this is the post for you. … [Read more...] about Idea Incubator in Early Child Development
Work travel adventures with a breastpump in hand
By Leslie Stone You are standing in line waiting for your turn to go through the metal detectors in a government building in South America. As your bag goes through the X-ray machine you know what is going to happen next. “Señorita, what is this in your bag?” You try to explain to the security guards what a breast pump is, and that it’s not an explosive device even though … [Read more...] about Work travel adventures with a breastpump in hand
Healthy Policies
By Helia Molina Milman What role does child development play in your country’s policies? We have a great deal of knowledge and evidence about early childhood development, as well as lessons learned and systematized; nonetheless, the required levels of investment in children in Latin America and the Caribbean have still not been reached. … [Read more...] about Healthy Policies
Cuddling is Not Spoiling
By Berna Iskandar At some point along this path that I chose, as an educator about respectful parenting issues, I realized that to take good care of our children, rather than learn, we need to unlearn, to return to what instinct dictates, to resume practices that respond to the design of the sophisticated primates that we are, and to rescue intelligent customs because … [Read more...] about Cuddling is Not Spoiling