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Q&A: What Is Executive Function, and How Can Parents and Teachers Help Kids Focus?

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Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child offers this definition of EF skills: “Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. A good starting point is the term “executive function.”