Babies and Toddlers

A child’s first two years are critical for the development of the brain and for language development. During this period, the child’s life experience plays a fundamental role in the “hard-wiring” of the brain, laying the foundation for all intellectual and emotional development to follow.

From birth, babies are busy, active learners, immediately investigating the sights, sounds, and feel of the world.

Babies and toddlers are sensori-motor beings. They explore the world with their senses when developing motor skills. Long before they understand a concept like "under" or "far" with their minds, their bodies are learning to navigate the up and down, over and under of the physical world: their perceptions are sorting out sizes, colours, and shapes.

At Bright Horizons nurseries we provide babies and toddlers with what they need: a safe world, rich with opportunities to actively explore and enjoy: to see, hear, feel, touch, and move. They need a world filled with responsive interactions and language: many “conversations” with others, books (for even the youngest babies), songs, and a lot of listening and responding to their vocalisations and words.