Activities

Use the Zoom In Thinking Routine at home to teach elementary school-age children visible thinking skills.

Activities appropriate for preschool, elementary, middle, and high school to teach deeper levels and ways of thinking. 

Self-control games from Paths to Success for elementary and middles school children.

An educational channel that is designed to help parents, teachers, counselors, etc. to reduce certain behaviors that, although common at an early age, need to be tested with children to develop learning about how to avoid them.

Article from Scholastic.com about impulsivity at different developmental stages and ways to encourage self-control.

Impulse Control Techniques That Work for Children by Amy Morin, LCSW from Very Well Family.

Listen to a NPR podcast about the why teenagers are more impulsive.

Listen to a short NPR podcast about the Marshmallow test.

Engage young people in a discussion about their self-talk. First, ask them what they say to them selves when triggered to engage in a behavior that may go against their values. Second, ask if their self-talk generates positive or negative feelings. Last, challenge them to create a new self-talk mantra that may increase positive feelings and impulse control. 

Engage young people in a values and impulse control exercise by building your Family Code. Youth are more likely to say 'no' to risky behavior when they know their own values and how their family expects them to act when faced with tempting situations.