Mothers' distancing language relates to young children's math and literacy skills.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104863
Abstract: Parents' distancing language-language that requires cognitive abstraction and moves beyond the "here and now"-relates to children's literacy skills, but its association with mathematics remains unexamined. Participants were 242 mother-child dyads from African American, Chinese American,… read more here.
Keywords: math literacy; literacy skills; distancing language; language ... See more keywords