Kayla Pinto knew she had found her calling from the first day she taught preschool at the YMCA in Somerville, Massachusetts. Pinto had grown up attending programs at the Y in this small city just north of Boston, and she started working there when she was 14. But it wasn’t until her early 20s, when […]

Suzanne Bouffard
Suzanne Bouffard is a writer, developmental psychologist, and author of The Most Important Year: Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children. She has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, U.S. News and World Report, and other outlets. You can find her articles at suzannebouffard.com or follow her on Twitter @SuzanneBouffard.