Essential Skills for Early School Success

You’re trying to do the right thing. Your child is over two now. So you start thinking

about letters. Numbers. Apps that promise to get them “ahead.” But what if the

thing that matters most for school success after age two isn’t ABCs or 123s at all?

What if it’s something quieter—something most parents are never told to focus on?

Stay with me, because this research changes what really matters after age two.

In 2023, researchers published a study looking closely at what actually predicts

school success in early childhood. Not test scores. Not early reading. But how children

function day to day in learning environments. The study focused on children after