Ellen Galinsky has spent her entire career studying early childhood development, first at Vassar College, then for twenty-five years at the Bank Street College of Education, and for the past twenty years as the founder and now president of the Families and Work Institute. What she has found is that there is an enormous gap between what researchers have discovered and what parents have been told about those discoveries. Mind in the Making bridges this gap, bringing the work of more than a hundred scientists into a form that parents everywhere can use. Galinsky has divided this information into the seven skills she believes all children should learn, showing parents not only what children are capable of, but specifically how to develop those capabilities in their children from birth up until age eight.
Advance Praise for Mind in the Making
“I was so delighted when Ellen Galinsky first asked me to contribute to her Mind in the Making project, and am thrilled to have her share my research on infant and child development and that of my colleagues as broadly as possible. We need to get these important messages out, and parents are clamoring for it. Thank you, Ellen!”
- T. Berry Brazelton, M. D., Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Founder, Brazelton Touchpoints Center
“Ellen Galinsky – already the go-to person on interaction between families and the workplace – draws on fresh research to explain what we OUGHT to be teaching our children. With her love of children so evident, and with clear guidance for parents and teachers, this is must-reading for everyone who cares about America’s fate in the 21st century.”
“A valuable resource! Ellen Galinsky’s extensive research reveals important insights into the science of early learning.”
— Adele Faber, co-author of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
“Mind in the Making is the central component of a creative, multi-faceted initiative that clarifies paths to lifelong learning—related to discoveries about brain development and how learning builds on the structure and function of the brain. It is a valuable contribution based on solid research that yields practical benefits.”
— David A. Hamburg, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College and President Emeritus of the Carnegie Corporation of New York