"Early childhood is both the most critical and the most vulnerable time in any child's development.  In the first few years, the ingredients for intellectual, emotional, and moral growth are laid down.  We cannot fail children in these early years."

T. Berry Brazelton, MD and Stanley Greenspan, MD, George Washington University Medical Center

"We should start with the idea of restoring value and significance to the idea of nurturing, recognize that all our children need it and create programs and institutions that will help us give it to them.

... If we're worried about the cost, we might look at it this way: The less care a child has in the early years, the more society will have to pay for it later on."

Naomi F. Chase

"Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods."

Pam Leo

"What's done to children, they will do to society."

Dr. Karl Menninger

"Babies learn resignation easily.  They learn to accept unfulfilled needs, but at the price of lowered self-esteem and trust in their environment. "

The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

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What Our Supporters Are Saying

"I knew I had to support Smile At Your Baby! as soon as I read their first brochure.  It just makes sense--it's not rocket science. If society is ever going to change for the better it will have to start at infancy.  I feel privileged to be a part of it." 

~ Brent Jeffers, Pullman, WA