Videos

This video will teach you how to safely and easily make your own homemade baby food. Learn how much and what types of foods to make, and which are the best tools and techniques to use.

This video will teach you how and when to increase the texture of foods in your baby's diet. Learn how much and what types of foods are recommended at what ages, and what to avoid.

This video will teach you how and when to introduce solid foods to your baby's diet. Learn how much and what types of foods are recommended at what ages, and what to avoid.

The video depicts how actions by a range of people in the family and community can affect a child’s development. 

Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Professor of Child Health and Development at Harvard University, shares his important play tips to boost your child’s brain. In the first 1,000 days of life, a baby’s brain forms 1,000 new connections every second. Just 15 minutes of play can spark thousands of brain connections.

The basic architecture of the brain is constructed through a process that begins early in life and continues into adulthood. Simpler circuits come first and more complex brain circuits build on them later. Genes provide the basic blueprint, but experiences influence how or whether genes are expressed.

This video is part two of a three-part series titled "Three Core Concepts in Early Development" from the Center and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.

This video is part three of a three-part series titled "Three Core Concepts in Early Development" from the Center and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.