Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children

The Myth of the Supertrait Ⅲ- Woodmam
Froh began to design a new study, working with a K–12 parochial school, where he could test a gratitude intervention on kids from grades 3, 8, and 12, to look...
The Myth of the Supertrait Ⅲ- Woodmam
Froh began to design a new study, working with a K–12 parochial school, where he could test a gratitude intervention on kids from grades 3, 8, and 12, to look...

The Myth of the Supertrait Ⅱ- Woodmam
The four classes of students who counted their blessings didn’t experience more gratitude than the control group—not during the two-week exercise, immediately after, or three weeks later. The journal writing...
The Myth of the Supertrait Ⅱ- Woodmam
The four classes of students who counted their blessings didn’t experience more gratitude than the control group—not during the two-week exercise, immediately after, or three weeks later. The journal writing...

The Myth of the SupertraitⅠ- Woodmam
When Ashley and I began this book, we adamantly chose not to focus just on children’s intellectual prowess. Brainy prodigies were not our goal; rather, we were interested in a...
The Myth of the SupertraitⅠ- Woodmam
When Ashley and I began this book, we adamantly chose not to focus just on children’s intellectual prowess. Brainy prodigies were not our goal; rather, we were interested in a...

Why Hannah Talks and Alyssa Doesn’t Ⅷ- Woodmam
A similar argument can be applied to the notion held by our society that having better or lesser verbal skills and reading skills is a function of innate verbal ability....
Why Hannah Talks and Alyssa Doesn’t Ⅷ- Woodmam
A similar argument can be applied to the notion held by our society that having better or lesser verbal skills and reading skills is a function of innate verbal ability....

Why Hannah Talks and Alyssa Doesn’t Ⅵ- Woodmam
It was one thing to learn about these scaffolding techniques from Goldstein and Schwade—but it was another thing to actually see their power in action.Ashley had that chance shortly after we...
Why Hannah Talks and Alyssa Doesn’t Ⅵ- Woodmam
It was one thing to learn about these scaffolding techniques from Goldstein and Schwade—but it was another thing to actually see their power in action.Ashley had that chance shortly after we...

Why Hannah Talks and Alyssa Doesn’t Ⅵ- Woodmam
These predictably repeating word combinations—known as “frames”—become the spoken equivalent of highlighting a text. A child already knows the cadence and phonemes for most of the sentence—only a small part of what’s...
Why Hannah Talks and Alyssa Doesn’t Ⅵ- Woodmam
These predictably repeating word combinations—known as “frames”—become the spoken equivalent of highlighting a text. A child already knows the cadence and phonemes for most of the sentence—only a small part of what’s...