For Families
When Helping Hurts: Homework Support and Learned Helplessness
Melissa Orkin, Sidney May & Maryanne Wolf
Orkin, May and Wolf in Reading Psychology (2017): the study of how parental homework help relates to helpless behaviors in struggling readers, and why help that takes over can backfire while support that protects a child’s sense of competence does not.
Full citation in Maryanne Wolf’s published CV.
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