Part 3 of Dr Jack Shonkoff's (Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University & CoLab Visiting Scholar at Telethon Kids Institute) Q&A session conducted during April 2017 in Perth, Western Australia.
In this video Jack discusses how parents are the most important influence in their child’s life, and how they can fundamentally shape their child’s development through the relationships, interactions and experiences they provide for them in the early years.
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CoLab (Collaborate for Kids) is a new partnership between Telethon Kids and the Minderoo Foundation which is bringing together families, researchers, clinicians, educators, policy makers and other practitioners to work together to ensure young children in Australia develop, learn and thrive.
• colab.telethonkids.org.au
Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital; and Founding Director of the university-wide Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
