Your brain on play: How play supports toddler brain growth

Between the ages of 0 to 8 years, your child’s brain grows a tremendous amount – likely more than any other time in life. Children are like sponges and are constantly absorbing the world around them. Often, without even realizing it, children are investigating, exploring, and creating scientific experiments all in their own heads! As parents and caregivers, we have so much that we can offer our children to make this learning experience even better to aid in brain development.

While there is still so much to learn and research about the effect of play on a child’s brain growth, let me share some of what is known and talk about how we can use this information to provide our kids with the best environments for learning and brain development.