Ready, Set, Vroom! Brain Building for New Parents

Brain Building for New Parents

Learn how you’re already building your bond and parenting skills. Our collection of tips for new and expecting parents will help prepare you for everyday moments with your baby—starting now.

What is Ready, Set, Vroom?

Our Ready, Set, Vroom collection supports your growth into your new role as parent. These tips strengthen your bond from the very start. They include the latest science on parent brain-building and were designed in partnership with moms and dads like you!

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Support While You’re Still Expecting

Add your baby’s due date and receive tips to help you prepare and build parenting skills before your baby arrives.

A Tip Collection Just for New Parents

Discover the science behind your own brain building in our collection of tips found in the Vroom app.

Daily Tips, On Your Schedule

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For All Parents

Science tells us all parents—including dads—experience this Brain Building Moment. Vroom Tips are built with all parents and communities in mind.

From When You’re Expecting

You can build parenting skills before your baby arrives. Vroom is here to help you reflect on your needs, connect with other adults, and prepare for future routines.

Every Time Your Family Grows

These brain changes happen every time a new little one is on the way! Vroom has tips for you and your older children to prepare together for your new family member.

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“[Babies] don’t need all this stuff from the stores. I can get creative and just be there and that’s enough...They just need mama and dad.”

First time mom

Two Brain-Building Actions for New Parents

Everyday back-and-forth moments support your learning and growth as a parent. Vroom brings these simple, science-backed actions to life with the Brain Building Basics.

Reflect

The Reflect Brain Building Basic™ highlights simple ways to make sense of your feelings and experiences during everyday moments. These Vroom Tips can help you build confidence and understanding of your own power as a parent.

Connect

The Connect Brain Building Basic™ brings the science of supportive relationships to your journey as a parent. These Vroom Tips show how you strengthen your parenting skills through shared moments with your community and your little one.

The brain science behind these tips

Your brain gets ready for parenthood.

Our Ready, Set, Vroom collection supports you as you grow into this new role and build your bond from the very start. These tips share the latest science on parent brain-building. And were designed in partnership with moms and dads like you!

Back-and-forth moments build brains and bonds.

Our tips share the ways you and your baby already learn together, even in fussy or frustrating moments. With time, you’ll build routines to take care of your little one and yourself. You are each other’s #1 brain builder!

All your baby needs right now is you.

Every shared moment, no matter how small, shows your baby they are safe and loved. Follow their cues and notice how they respond. This simple back-and-forth sets you both up for a life of learning.

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These free, printable Vroom Tip Sheets share simple, science-based ideas to help new parents understand how their own brains change and grow during the early days of parenthood.

Tip Sheets

Science Handouts

Ready, Set, Vroom was developed in partnership with researchers, community leaders, and more than 150 parents across the United States. Their guidance led to Vroom Tips designed for you, by those who understand the ins and outs of becoming a parent.