For instance, studies reveal that for high risk or for highly stressed students, the most beneficial form of feedback is delayed feedback. It helps mediate impulsivity. There needs to be a breather time before the action and a time the student gets feedback on that. My new book has a whole chapter on parents and their interaction with their children. The first five years of a child's life are vitally important.
Most kids suffer from an economy of time.
For example, in 1960, an infant spent 200 hundred hours in the car in the first two years of its life. In the 60s, infants in the car were crawling around and doing all kind of motor activities. In 1995, the infant spends 600 hours in the car and 100 percent of that time is spent in the car seat. We have taken away 600 hours of motion developmental time. The kids never catch up.