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Welcome to Raising Good Humans.

Today's episode is all about executive function skills and to help us understand how children develop executive function skills and how we can help our kids really grow those skills is developmental psychologist, neuroscientists, and

professor Dr Phil Zilazzo whose research has truly shaped the field of developmental

cognitive neuroscience regarding the field of developmental cognitive

neuroscience regarding the development of executive function.

Thinking of executive function

as conscious self-control of thought, action, and emotion

you can imagine what a huge influence it has on our success in life.

And so I'm thrilled to have him and we're going to talk about what these executive function skills are and what we can do to help support our kids as they develop those skills.

So if you are interested in helping guide your kids to improve these incredibly

important life skills, this is a great start.

So these are a set of skills that are typically acquired by children and these skills continue to develop across the lifespan, but they're showing major

developments during early childhood and generally there's a lot of evidence that these skills are cultivated in the context of relationships with parents and other caregivers.

And so in the context of a secure safe relationship children learn executive

function skills by using them. So typically parents provide

children with opportunities to exercise their attention regulation

skills and they scaffold those opportunities.

So they prevent them from being so hard that they're overwhelming, but they provide children

with challenges.

And it's really through use that these

executive function skills these attention regulation skills are solidified and

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