Month: September 2017

Decades of neuroscience research have proven that 90 percent of critical brain development happens in the first five years of life...Read More Children at Kidspace in Pasadena’s Brookside Park in 2015. (Photo by Walt Mancini/SCNG) Help Pasadena create a new Office of the Young Child: Guest commentary

We recently celebrated our 50th anniversary, and our family is extremely important to us. Including our children’s spouses ... Now is the time to create a sound infrastructure for Pasadena’s youngest children Read More

One of my earliest childhood memories in the early 1950s is sitting in my mother's lap, my head resting against her chest ... Read More

Our work is just beginning and we are commemorating the start of this movement by hosting a Family and Community Day – a day where families and the public at large will be engaged in a myriad of activities that foster children’s development and learning from birth to age 5, become familiarized with the extensive community resources available to them on child development, brain science, parenting, neighborhood resources and will and have the opportunity to be the first to co-create... continue reading »"Launch of Pasadena as an Early Learning City"