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    Executive function refers to a set of skills that underlie the ability to plan, focus, control impulses, and meet goals. These skills develop through experiences and practice from infancy onward, supported by responsive caregivers, and help the brain prioritize tasks and filter distractions. Building children's executive function through establishing routines, breaking tasks into chunks, and encouraging imagination and rule-following benefits both children and society as they grow into competent, engaged adults.

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    Executive function refers to a set of skills that underlie the ability to plan, focus, control impulses, and meet goals. These skills develop through experiences and practice from infancy onward, supported by responsive caregivers, and help the brain prioritize tasks and filter distractions. Building children's executive function through establishing routines, breaking tasks into chunks, and encouraging imagination and rule-following benefits both children and society as they grow into competent, engaged adults.

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    Interesante infografía para comprender las Funciones Ejecutivas.

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    Executive function refers to a set of skills that underlie the ability to plan, focus, control impulses, and meet goals. These skills develop through experiences and practice from infancy onward, supported by responsive caregivers, and help the brain prioritize tasks and filter distractions. Building children's executive function through establishing routines, breaking tasks into chunks, and encouraging imagination and rule-following benefits both children and society as they grow into competent, engaged adults.

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    Executive function refers to a set of skills that underlie the ability to plan, focus, control impulses, and meet goals. These skills develop through experiences and practice from infancy onward, supported by responsive caregivers, and help the brain prioritize tasks and filter distractions. Building children's executive function through establishing routines, breaking tasks into chunks, and encouraging imagination and rule-following benefits both children and society as they grow into competent, engaged adults.

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    What is

    Executive function?
    and How Does it Relate to Child Development?
    The phrase “executive function” refers to
    a set of skills. These skills underlie the
    capacity to plan ahead and meet goals,
    display self-control, follow multiple-step
    directions even when interrupted, and stay due

    focused despite distractions, among others.

    due Much like


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    skills help our brains prioritize tasks, filter
    distractions, and control impulses.

    no one is born with executive function skills,


    but nearly everyone can learn them.
    Our genes provide
    the blueprint for Adults set up the framework for children to learn
    learning these skills, and practice these skills over time by establishing
    but they develop routines, breaking big tasks into smaller chunks,
    through experiences and encouraging games that promote imagination,
    and practice. The role-playing, following rules, and controlling
    foundation is laid impulses. These techniques are
    in infancy, when known as “scaffolding.” Just
    babies first learn as a scaffold supports
    to pay attention. workers while a building
    Relationships with is being constructed,
    responsive caregivers are particularly important at adults can use
    this stage. Something as simple as playing a game these activities
    of peekaboo can help build the early foundations to support the
    of working memory and self-control as a baby emergence of
    anticipates the surprise. children’s executive
    function skills until
    they can perform
    them on their own.

    These skills typically develop most rapidly between ages 3-5, followed
    by another spike in development during the adolescent and early adult
    years. It takes a long time and a lot of practice to develop them, but,
    as children’s executive function skills grow, adults can gradually allow
    children to manage more and more aspects of their environment.

    Building Children’s Executive Function


    Skills Benefits Everyone.
    The increasingly competent In turn, this helps
    executive functioning of children them grow into
    and adolescents adults capable of
    enables them juggling a multitude
    to plan and act of commitments,
    2+2= in a way that I Voted
    such as parenting,
    makes them employment,
    good students, continuing education,
    classroom and civic involvement.
    citizens, and Even health is
    friends. affected, as strong
    executive function
    helps people stick
    to healthy habits
    and reduce stress. The more a society invests in
    building the executive functioning of its children,
    the greater dividends it will see in the future.

    For more information: https://developingchild.harvard.edu/ef

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