Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Beyond the Home and Building Blocks

"At age three and four, they need a high-quality preschool that provides them with a solid grounding in letters and numbers as well as a stable base of interpersonal, motivational, and psychological capacities."
(page 43, Kindle Edition)

"The students improved academically for the simple reason that they were able to concentrate on what was being taught, without their attention being swept away by conflicts and disagreements."
(page 47, Kindle Edition)

"A lot of it has to do with problems of focusing attention, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. And you may not have developed those capacities because of what happened to you early on in your life."
(page 51, Kindle Edition)

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Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Attachment and Home Visiting

"When interventions designed to encourage attachment are done right, the effect on disadvantaged parents and their children can be transformative."
(page 35, Kindle Edition)

"The message to parents is: You don’t need to learn something new. We just want to show you what you’re already doing, because if you do more of that, it’s going to be transformative for your baby."
(page 41, Kindle Edition)

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Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Neglect and Early Intervention

"If we want to try to improve the early lives of disadvantaged children today, there is considerable evidence that the best lever we can use is that same powerful environmental element: the behaviors and attitudes of the adults those children encounter every day."
(page 26, Kindle Edition)

"The effect of the environment is amplified during the early years: When children are in a good environment, it is very good for their future development, and when they are in a bad environment, it is very bad."
(page 27, Kindle Edition)

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Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Parents and Trauma

"But one of the most important findings of this new cohort of researchers is that for most children, the environmental factors that matter most have less to do with the buildings they live in than with the relationships they experience— the way the adults in their lives interact with them, especially in times of stress."
(page 17, Kindle Edition)

"We know that when children experience toxic stress, especially when they are very young, it can disrupt their development in profound ways, compromising their immune system, their executive functions, and their mental health."
(page 19, Kindle Edition)

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Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Skills and Stress

"Yet it was clear from my reporting that you could make students more self-controlled without ever talking to them about the virtue of self-control."
(page 12, Kindle Edition)

Rather than consider noncognitive capacities as skills to be taught, I came to conclude, it’s more accurate and useful to look at them as products of a child’s environment.
(page 12, Kindle Edition)

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