Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Approaches to Learning domain, the strand Executive Functioning includes the foundation Inhibitory Control. Children from 11 through 23 months stop or adjust their actions in response to cues from others. They also consider choices with caregiver support to manage their impulses and behaviors.
Example 1
Text on screen: Stops and adjusts actions in response to caregiver cues and considers choices with caregiver support
On screen: 19-month-old Isaiah, 21-month-old August, and an older child are playing with large toy bugs at an activity table. A caregiver kneels alongside them. Isaiah is interested in August’s ladybug. He reaches out to take the ladybug, and the caregiver tries to redirect his attention.
Caregiver 1: Can you – Isaiah, look.
On screen: The caregiver picks up a beetle and holds it out to Isaiah.
Caregiver 1: Here’s one, and here’s another one.
On screen: She picks up another insect toy. Isaiah tries to grab the ladybug from August’s hand.
Caregiver 1: You want the lady bug? But right now you have that one, and August has the ladybug.
On screen: Isaiah continues trying to take the ladybug. August moves away, turning to block Isaiah’s reach. Their movement brings Isaiah back toward the caregiver. Isaiah briefly settles into the caregiver’s lap
Caregiver 1: Isaiah, let August have his turn. Oh, OK. Can we play together?
On screen: Isaiah stands, picks up a toy bee from the table, and sits back down on the caregiver’s lap.
Caregiver 1: And August will play with the ladybug. What did you find? You’re slipping. The bee!
Example 2
Text on screen: Adjusts actions and manages impulses in response to caregiver cues
On screen: 21-month-old Archie sits at a low table with his caregiver. His caregiver is filling a bowl with oatmeal. She picks up a spoon and begins stirring the oatmeal, holding the bowl at Archie’s face level.
Caregiver 2: All right, Archie, can you blow on it? It’s hot.
On screen: Archie watches the caregiver stir the oatmeal. He lightly blows toward the bowl.
Caregiver 2: Blow? Mix, mix, mix.
On screen: The caregiver stops stirring and places the bowl on the table in front of Archie.
Caregiver 2: Wanna mix?
On screen: Archie picks up the spoon and begins to stir the oatmeal.
Caregiver 2: That’s it. Be careful, OK? We’re gonna get some berries.
On screen: The caregiver picks up a jug of blueberries. Archie lifts a spoonful of oatmeal toward his mouth.
Archie: Hot.
Caregiver 2: Hot. Hot?
On screen: Archie blows several times on the spoonful of oatmeal before putting it in his mouth.
Caregiver 2: Would you like some blueberries in your oatmeal?
On screen: The caregiver holds out a spoonful of blueberries.
Archie: Yeah.
Caregiver 2: Yeah, right here?
Archie: Yeah.
On screen: The caregiver puts the blueberries into Archie’s bowl. She speaks to another child off camera as Archie begins picking blueberries out of his oatmeal with his fingers.
Caregiver 2: Yuma, do you want some blueberries? Wanna try to grab it? Let’s put it on your plate right here.
Yuma: Yeah.
On screen: Archie gets another spoonful of oatmeal and raises it toward his mouth.
Caregiver 2: Ok. There you go. Gonna get our milk. Blow on it. It’s hot. Hot, hot, hot.
On screen: Archie stops and blows on the spoonful of oatmeal again.
Caregiver 2: Blow, blow, blow.
Example 3
Text on screen: Adjusts actions and considers choices with caregiver support
On screen: 21-month-old Teah and her caregiver are outside the entrance to a child care center. Teah looks through a full-length window at another caregiver, who sits holding an infant just inside the door. Teah presses her hands to the window and watches the caregiver bounce the infant on her knee. Then she turns away from the door and looks up.
Caregiver 3: He was like… (laughing) (inaudible) you’re looking up, too.
On screen: Teah goes to a small set of shelves and removes a large decorative snail figurine from the middle shelf.
Caregiver 3: You like their snail?
On screen: Teah throws the snail onto the ground.
Caregiver 3: Don’t do that with the snail. Please pick it up and put it back on their shelf.
On screen: Teah bends over and picks the snail up. She holds it out toward her caregiver.
Caregiver 3: Back on the shelf please.
On screen: Her caregiver taps the middle shelf. Teah uses both hands to place the snail back in its place.
Caregiver 3: Thank you, Teah.
On screen: Teah bumps into the edge of the shelves, and her caregiver reaches out to hold them steady.
Caregiver 3: This decoration belongs to the babies.
Example 4
Text on screen: Adjusts actions and considers choices with caregiver support
On screen: 21-month-old Milani and two other children sit at a low table playing with a shallow tub of play slime as a caregiver supervises them. As Milani squeezes and pounds a small lump of slime, the caregiver helps another child who has slime stuck to her.
Caregiver 4: You need to take it off? Here do you need some help?
On screen: Milani sets her slime on the table and picks up a rock from next to the tub. She pats at the rock.
Caregiver 4: Here. Can you give it to me?
On screen: She begins hitting the rock firmly against the top of the table.
Caregiver 4: Milani, that is really hard. It could dent the table.
On screen: The caregiver reaches out and lightly taps her fingers against the table in front of Milani. Milani turns the rock around several times in her hands.
Milani: Yah, yah, yah.
Caregiver 4: You want to put it back in here?
On screen: The caregiver pats the surface of the slime inside the tub. Milani drops the rock back into the tub. The caregiver presses it into the slime.
Caregiver 4: You can see how it settles while you do that, here.
On screen: Milani smacks the lumps of slime in front of her on the table.