Can’t shake your tendency to procrastinate? It may have started sooner than you think. Researchers studied if procrastination tendencies were different in younger or older children, whose future thinking and executive function skills are more developed.
Toronto mom Kate Miller said when it comes to the morning routine, sometimes her 5-year-old just hits a wall.
Future-thinking, planning ahead, self control and impulse control emerge in children around three years old and improve as they get older. This is why researchers focused on this age group, trying to find out if procrastination tendencies were different in younger or older children, whose future thinking and executive function skills are more developed.
Responses were gathered online from families in the United States. 71 per cent of the parents of younger children reported their children attended either daycare or preschool and 73 per cent of parents of older children said they were either in kindergarten or first grade. “I think this paper and the research suggests otherwise,” Mahy said. “Even young children have tasks that they find undesirable and I think it’s sort of a natural human tendency to want to put off tasks and sort of escape those punishing tasks that you don’t find enjoyable.”
At the same time, it’s OK to ask for help and get strategies and tools to help children get through routines, Lakhani said, adding concerned parents can reach out to a family physician. Other professionals that can help include behavioural therapists and child psychologists.
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