If you’ve ever found yourself pleading with a child to take “just three more bites,” you’re not alone. Or perhaps, you are at the ‘fed up with it’ stage, and the battleground is now robbing the joy from family meals.
If you’ve ever said, “I just need to focus,” and then found yourself scrolling, snacking, and reorganizing your sock drawer-you’ve just met your executive function. And it wasn’t having its best day.
For children, weak executive function shows up as
A mom recently told me, “If I hear I’m bored one more time, I’m going to lose it.” I nodded sympathetically. Then she added, “And I’m just as bad-I can’t sit still for a second without reaching for my phone.