Costumes All Year Round
Costumes are unique toys, if you even want to call them that. They’re playthings you don’t play with, rather, they support and inspire play – they’re play facilitators. You’ve likely…
Category: Education and Childhood Development
Resources and information on early childhood education for parents, caregivers, and teachers.
The Art of Letting Go
I have a confession. I posted an article in March 2013 called “The Resiliency Gap”, in which I wrote about our observed increase in the number of children shying away…
Yoga for Children and Grownups
September is National Yoga Month. Yoga offers various health benefits: it helps you relax, stretch your muscles, and strengthen your body. Yoga also helps you to practice relaxation and concentration. But yoga…
A Lifelong Love of Learning
At Boston Children’s Museum it’s easy to find examples of visitors learning: toddlers developing motor skills as they dance in KidPower; rising kindergarteners playing with math manipulatives in Countdown to…
Building Social-Emotional Skills
Social-emotional development affects children in many different ways. “Social-emotional” means how children feel about themselves and how they understand others. Healthy social-emotional development contributes to children’s self-confidence, empathy, interpersonal skills,…
Spring Training: The Importance of Outdoor Play
This month’s blog post is written by our Health and Wellness intern, Ashlee Burgess. She is a graduate student from Wheelock College pursuing a degree in Child Life. Ashlee loves baseball…
Talking to Children About Difficult Situations
When tragic events happen in the world, especially in places that relate to you, it can often be difficult to cope with these events. Parents and anyone who works closely…
Project Play: Research at Boston Children’s Museum
Boston Children’s Museum works closely with researchers from local universities to conduct studies into child development, cognition and more; and to translate the latest studies and findings for the general…
The Power of Play 