Early days and months of life are critical

"Early relationships are the foundations on which we build our identity and our future. Everything we do for the rest of our lives is really rooted in the nature of those early experiences and early relationships," he says.

Melmed is executive director of Zero to Three, a national nonprofit, based in D.C., dedicated to supporting the health and development of infants and toddlers. He says recent advances in neuroscience have underscored the importance of early childhood education.

"And what the neuroscience is telling us is that in the early days and months of life, the brain is going at a pace that that far exceeds any other point in our lifetime," he says.

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