Welcome Critters!
On the third Saturday of each month, Boston Children’s Museum celebrates “Critter Day” when we have special live animal presentations delivered by local organizations. Most of these presenters bring wild…
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,…
Sometimes Good Things Come To An End
Today is my last day as the Spring 2014 Growdon Collections Intern. It’s bittersweet because on the one hand I’m leaving behind two new online collections of some of the…
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…
Sometimes You Have to Play Detective
The Museum has many different countries represented in its collections, and sometimes this means playing detective to figure out what a word or phrase on an object means. Sometimes this…
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…
Get Lucky and Build Your Brain
Did you know that physical activity helps children not only expend energy but also sends that energy to their brains? Here are some examples: Rocking a baby does more than…
