Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Mental Wellness for Adolescents and Adults. Executive functioning skills are your child’s mental control center, ...

High-level cognitive skills help middle and high school students manage their emotions, behaviors, and responsibilities.

It’s the night before your child has a big paper or project due and panic has set in. Deadlines have already been missed and now your child has a mountain of work to complete. As you hunker down to ...

Math. Social studies. Science. There’s no shortage of important topics the U.S. education system imparts on our youth. And yet, there is a set of skills that’s not given enough attention in the ...

It's the buzzy elementary school skill ...

Your working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation are core components of executive function (EF), an interrelated set of mental skills that lay the foundation for advanced cognitive ...

The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment conducted by Walter Mischel and Ebbe B. Ebbesen, 1970 Source: Linkedin, used with permission Your child may act like His Majesty the king, but does he or she ...

If you’ve heard the phrase “executive functioning” recently, it probably came up in the context of ADHD, a common neurobehavioral condition which affects a person’s ability to stay focused, maintain a ...

Companies in the U.S. dedicate a significant amount of time and resources to improve employee engagement, spending an estimated $100 billion annually on initiatives such as surveys, measurement and ...

Source: "Brain Clock"/bzztbomb/CC BY-NC 2.0 For at least a decade I have been trying to teach my daughter Sam “executive functioning.” For at least a decade she has been failing to learn—to learn how ...