How Children and Adults Can Build Core Capabilities for Life

How can children and adults build executive function or skill-regulation skills? These core capabilities help us to focus on what’s important, plan ahead, set goals, and meet them. No one is born with these skills, but everyone can build them. This video explores the development and use of these skills from early childhood into adolescence and adulthood. Learn what these skills are, why they are important, how they develop, and how they are affected by stress. Learn more about executive function skills—and how to develop and enhance them—in this guide from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University: https://developingchild.harvard.edu/r... Why is building these skills necessary to improve outcomes for young children? Watch the first part of this video: Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change:    • Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Chi...   #ChildDevelopment #ExecutiveFunction #ExecutiveFunctioning