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State-Based Resources

States are incubators for innovative ideas and often set the trends about which policy strategies build momentum and which do not. Learn what your state is doing to support very young children and how infants and toddlers are faring by visiting your state’s page below.

Each page includes articles highlighting state policies and initiatives that support infants, toddlers, and their families. They also include the State of Babies Yearbook: 2019 State Profile, where you can learn how your state measures up on indicators related to Good Health, Strong Families, and Positive Early Learning Experiences.

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Why Engaging Fathers Matters
Join Safe Babies, a program of ZERO TO THREE™, for a webinar led by the National Council of Juvenile and… Home Fathers are essential partners in babies’ healthy development and in strengthening families. Fathers want to be engaged and connected to their children. Yet too…
Sleep and Routines: Parenting Tips for Military Families
Military life often brings changes to daily routines. Deployments, frequent moves, training schedules, changing caregivers, and late-night video calls with… Military life often brings changes to daily routines. Deployments, frequent moves, training schedules, changing caregivers, and late-night video calls with a deployed parent can all…
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Parallel Play in Early Childhood: A Guide for Professionals
Learn how parallel play supports early development and how professionals can observe, encourage and discuss it with families.… Home Key Takeaways Parallel play involves proximity and peer awareness without requiring coordinated activity.Children learn social, language, cognitive and motor skills while playing side by side.Play…
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15-Month-Old Milestones: What to Expect
Babies and toddlers can and do suffer from mental health problems caused by trauma, neglect, biological factors, or environmental… Home Leer en español. Key Takeaways Movement is expanding. Your 15-month-old may walk, climb, carry objects, scribble, stack blocks, and practice self-feeding. Communication includes more than…
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Generation AI: Experts Examine AI’s Impact on Children and Families
Experts address frequently asked questions about artificial intelligence (AI) and early childhood development.… Home Leer en español. Image created with artificial intelligence The first three years of life are the most consequential window in human development, and today, that window is unfolding alongside AI. We…
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When Your Baby is Fussy
Understand why babies cry, what’s normal, ways to soothe a fussy baby, and how parents can stay calm and supported… Few sounds pull at a parent like a crying baby — and few things are harder to sit with, especially at 2 AM when nothing seems to…