Your child's environment is excellent: stable, structured, responsive. The problem is: none of those things exist in a room without a rubric. This episode is about what happens to a high-performing child when the structure disappears, and the one move that changes the equation.

This episode draws in part on research in:

• Executive function development in childhood (Diamond, 2013)
• Parental scaffolding and self-regulation (Bernier, Carlson & Whipple, 2010)
• Productive failure and ambiguity tolerance (Kapur, 2016)
• Autonomy support and intrinsic motivation (Ryan & Deci, 2000)
• Smartphone presence and cognitive capacity (Ward, Duke, Gneezy & Bos, 2017)