Fighting over toys. Pushing in the hall. Struggling to settle down when switching activities. Clingy kids. These are behaviors pre-K and kindergarten teachers are used to seeing when school begins.

Self-Control: How to Help Your Seven-Year-Old Make Responsible Choices Self-Control: How to Help Your Seven-Year-Old Make Responsible Choices Emotions influence behavior. Part of growing up is ...

Distinguished Professor Yu-Ju Chou of NTHU’s Department of Early Childhood Education (first from the left) and Associate ...

People who can delay gratification and master their impulses thrive in life. And experts say that you can learn skills to rein in bad habits. By Christina Caron We tend to respect and even idolize ...

Self-Control: A Shield Against Overwhelm Long-term research, including work published in Developmental Psychology and PNAS, shows that children with stronger self-regulation in the preschool years ...

Self-control of one's thoughts, feelings and behaviors is one of the personality traits that makes a child ready for school. And, it turns out, ready for life as well. A large study tracking 1,000 ...