Corter – contributing to self-regulation

We know in young children for example that what happens in utero can contribute to it. Stress, nutrition, and of course parenting is crucial. Once children emerge into the world and how parents are sensitive to infants’ cues, how they provide appropriate challenges for young children. How they talk to their toddlers about the world can equip the child for this lifelong development of self-regulatory ability. And we know from some of the long term research that these abilities in early childhood actually predict adult success in terms of economic success, social adaptation, relationships, avoiding crime and so on. So we know self-control, self-regulation in early childhood is building towards adulthood.