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.

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 ...

An exasperated juvenile court judge from Texas contacted me this past week. She is becoming worn down by the parade of adolescents coming before her bench who "just don't seem to get it. They're ...

Task initiation is a crucial aspect of executive function that impacts your ability to start projects and meet deadlines. It ...

Executive function — the term for critical mental skills like organization, focus, time management and emotional regulation — help all of us navigate our daily lives. People with ADHD are much more ...

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 ...

Vulnerability causes people to do some interesting things. For preteens, it often manifests into cutthroat judgment and meanness as defense mechanisms. If you look stupid, then I won’t. Couple that ...

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 ...

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 ...