{"id":171503,"date":"2025-11-12T14:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=171503"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:43:21","slug":"the-neighborhood-early-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/cities-and-prosperous-communities\/the-neighborhood-early-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neighborhood Where Children Grow Up Shapes Their Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Early childhood is probably the most important stage of human development, and there is increasing evidence that ensuring that it is lived in a healthy and fulfilling way depends not only on factors such as good nutrition, but also on developmental environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;What surrounds us literally shapes us<\/strong>, not just in the relationships, but in the built and natural environment and broader systemic forces,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/developingchild-harvard-edu.translate.goog\/people\/james-cairns\/?_x_tr_sl=es&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=es&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Cairns<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/developingchild-harvard-edu.translate.goog\/?_x_tr_sl=es&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=es&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center on the Developing Child<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his keynote talk, <em>What Surrounds Us Shapes Us: How Creating Supportive Developmental Environments Promotes Child Health and Development<\/em>, which took place during the third edition of the <a href=\"\/en\/tag\/international-forum-on-early-childhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Forum on Early Childhood<\/a>, Cairns explained that, although we haven&#8217;t paid much attention to them, <strong>structural inequalities and <a href=\"\/en\/tag\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">climate change<\/a> affect\u2014directly and indirectly\u2014the way children develop across the globe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now, many of the public policies that seek to protect this stage focuses on evidence about the biology of children, their neurological development, their <a href=\"\/en\/human-social\/stress-in-primary-child-care-providers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interaction with their primary caregivers<\/a>, and the toxic stress to which they may be exposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although these factors are crucial, we know little about <strong>the importance of the neighborhood, community, or city<\/strong> where we grow up and how that determines who we will become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There are ever growing body of research knowledge in many of these areas that we haven&#8217;t fully drawn into how we think and talk about what&#8217;s influencing child development,&#8221; Cairns emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Three Circles of a Developmental Environment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A developmental environment refers to the spaces, experiences, events, and influences that surround a child as they grow up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These environments are determined by <strong>three major factors or layers<\/strong>, according to Cairns. 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