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Table of Contents
- Caution – I Need to Be Careful
- Daily Self-evaluation Form
- Do Children Understand How Feelings Affect School Performance?
- Domains of Self Control
- Executive Functions
- I Am Indeed A King
- I Have My Goat Under Control
- Increasing Self-Management
- My Ire Is Under Control
- Organizational Skills Survey
- Parent Checklist – Executive Function
- School Rules Self-Control Instruction
- Self-Control Skill Clusters
- Self-Control Training Types
- Self-Monitoring
- Self-Statements
- SODA Acronym
- SOLVED Acronym
- STAR Acronym
- Steps for Creating a Self-Control Program
- Stop and Think
- Teach Your Child Self-Control
- Teaching Students to Self-Manage Their Behavior
- That Was Tough
- Triggers of Loss of Self-Control
- Types of Self-Control Strategies
- Victory Over Self
- Whatever We Learn to Do
- Working (short term) Memory Exercises
WOW – Words of Wisdom: Self-Control
B.F. Skinner & Self-Control?
B. F. Skinner is generally cited as the first individual to describe self-management – the means by which an individual systematically alters her/his own behavior via operant methods. He called this “self-control.”
When a man controls himself, chooses a course of action, thinks out the solution to a problem, or strives toward an increase in self-knowledge, this is behaving. He controls himself precisely as he would control the behavior of anyone else—through the manipulation of variables of which behavior is a function.
– (p. 228) Science and Human Behavior, 1953
Why Is Self-Control Important?
Good self-control has been linked to reduced aggression and criminality, better psychological adjustment, mental health, academic performance, and personal relationships, fewer financial and impulse control problems such as eating disorders and alcohol, nicotine, or other substance abuse.
– Malte Friese & Wilhelm Hofmann, 2009
In fact, research shows that children’s self-regulation behaviors in the early years predict their school achievement in reading and mathematics better than their IQ scores.
– Elena Bodrova & Deborah J. Leong, 2008