Parental Tutoring Changes Brains: Interview with Dr. Stuart Hammond

Why do parents have such a big impact on which kids succeed in school and beyond?  One of the answers has to do with a simple but poorly understood concept called “parental scaffolding”. Developmental psychology professor, Stuart Hammond, joins us today to help explain research showing how parents impact their child’s brain development with decisions that often do not seem as important as they are. 

 

Here's a link to the article we discussed.(Full article is behind a paywall)