Anyone sufficiently motivated to take an undergraduate or graduate course in this area
should find [in this book] a great deal to intrigue the imagination and stimulate further interest …

Mothers and children between the ages of 7 and 12, from individualist (Western European)
and collectivist (Egyptian, Iranian, Indian, and Pakistani) backgrounds, completed …

Objective. We investigated the role of mothers' elevated depressive symptoms on scaffolding
and availability to assist preschool children's regulatory development. Design. A sample of …

The purpose of this paper is to bring together and highlight common conceptual elements
and findings from constructs that involve parents' consideration of children's viewpoints and …

Joint book reading is a highly routinized activity that is nearly universal among families.
Conversational agents (CAs) can potentially act as joint-reading partners by engaging …

Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy
acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners …

Publicly funded pre-K is often touted as a means to narrow achievement gaps, but this goal
is less likely to be achieved if poor and/or minority children do not, at a minimum, attend …

Parents play a key role in supporting young children's interactions with tablets (eg iPads).
Little is known about the types of scaffolding parents provide during tablet activities and how …

The concept of 'scaffolding'introduced by Wood et al.(1976) figures prominently in
educational research but lacks the empirical rigour that allows researchers to establish …

Findings on the relation of maternal verbal teaching strategies to children's effortful control
(EC; ie, self-regulation) are limited in quantity and somewhat inconsistent. In this study …