A selection of articles involving Sam’s work

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  • Learning to focus

    Learning to focus: how early brain development boosts – and limits – raw learning power

    Royal Foundation

  • How bedtime stories synchronise your child’s brain with yours

    When parents read to young children their neural patterns begins to align, an experience no screen can match.

    The Times

  • Talking about Emotions

    Article on how talking about emotions can help children develop self-awareness. Written for Bing/Acamar Films.

  • Future of Education

    Interview for the Independent on what the future of education might look like.

  • 5 easy ways to boost your child’s development

    Tips on promoting language, communication and development in young children. Written for the Department of Education.

  • Coping with toddler tantrums

    Daily Mirror interview on the best things to say to a child when they’re upset. For Virgin Media O2’ Connected Playground campaign.

  • Noisy classrooms

    Interview for Times Educational Supplement about the evidence on noisy classrooms and child language outcomes.

  • Coping with back to school anxiety

    Tips for Huffington Post about helping children to manage their nerves around starting school. For Hartley’s.

  • Babies can see the third eye – and we think it’s why they first start to look at faces!

    ISEY article exploring how babies see the third eye!