Pamela Davis-Kean, PhD

“If they love something, you should too. If they hate something, you should too,” says Pamela Davis-Kean, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. “Kids are very self-centered. That’s developmentally appropriate.”

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“Punishing and lecturing also does not provide the child with concrete skills or strategies for improving their grades,” Davis-Kean said.

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“By knowing the type of math input that children receive at home, teachers might be better equipped to support children’s (math) development in school,” said Pamela Davis-Kean, associate director at the U-M Center for Human Growth and Development and associate professor of psychology.

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“Kids now are in the home environment where the roles are different. And it's always going to be a transition when you have to go into this more ordered and more kind of rule-oriented environment of the schools. And I think one of the things I've seen teachers talk about doing is to be in constant contact with their kids, is to also provide opportunities of regulation for kids to learn how to regulate.”

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“The technology right now I think it is what we have, it is what it is, it's not necessarily going to improve across the next year. I think what we're going to have to do is do the best we can. And then next year, we're really going to have to have a plan and it's going to have to be a serious plan of how we're going to deal with both the mental health and socio and emotional issues, behavioral issues and achievement issues on top of all of those.”

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