No Mind Left Behind: Understanding and Fostering Executive Control--The Eight Essential Brain SkillsEvery Child Needs to Thrive

From the cutting edge of brain science, eight crucial skills for children's future success-now in paperback.

From a clinical psychologist who has devoted his clinical and research work to the study of executive control skills, here is a program for helping children master the eight essential cognitive skills that are critical for success in life in work:

• Taking initiative

• Screening out distractions

• Organizing • Thinking flexibly

• Planning • Regulating emo…