Glossary
Self-regulation
Definition
Self-regulation is the ability to manage attention, emotion and impulse toward a goal.
What supports it
Sleep, predictable routines, and practice at waiting. The research consensus is unusually boring and unusually consistent.
It is the skill underneath most of what parents call "listening".
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