ABSTRACT
Cline and Fay suggested that the parents provide our child with choices. Stress and anxiety can inhibit a child’s ability to develop executive functioning skills. Meditation can be a way calm a child’s brain and has also been shown to improve self-control when paired with mindfulness training. Socialization is an important component to building executive functioning as well. The important thing is that our child learns how to interact with peers, share, and have fun in an unstructured environment. That means the parents are not planning out activities, spending a ton of money at the arcade, or organizing a group craft. Self-discipline and self-regulation are skills that the parents must help our children develop if children's want them to be gritty. Additionally, if they want to pursue excellence in something great, they need to be committed to that something great.
