Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Approaches to Learning domain, the strand Executive Functioning includes the foundation Inhibitory Control. Children from 23 through 36 months communicate more specific information about their wants or needs. With caregiver guidance, they also adjust their actions to manage their impulses and behaviors.
Example 1
Text on screen: Communicates about wants
On screen: 29-month-old Mia and 27-month-old Vera are playing at a round table. Vera holds a plastic spatula in her hands while Mia is seated at the table. On the table is a bowl filled with stones. As Vera approaches the table and sets the spatula down, Mia points toward the bowl.
Mia: Vera, can, can I have one, too?
On screen: Vera pulls the bowl closer to herself.
Vera: No.
Mia: Please?
Jet: Can I have rock?
On screen: 32-month-old Jet walks up to the table and reaches into the bowl.
Vera: No.
Jet: Thank you.
On screen: Vera swats at Jet’s hand, but he takes a stone. Jet drops the stone and picks it back up. Vera notices and follows him, reaching for the stone.
Vera: (yelling) Ah! Noooo! (shouting) Gimme that!
On screen: Jet turns away from Vera, holding the stone out of her reach. Vera holds a hand to her mouth in distress.
Caregiver 1: All right.
Vera: (loudly) Nooooooooo!
On screen: Jet puts the rock down his shirt and holds onto it through the shirt. Vera continues to walk toward Jet.
Vera: That’s my rock!
Text on screen: Adjusts actions to manage impulses and behaviors, with caregiver guidance
Vera: Give me my rock!
On screen: The rock drops out from Jet’s shirt. Vera quickly bends down, picks it up, and stands back up.
Jet: Can I have it?
On screen: Jet holds out his hand. Vera shakes her head intently.
Vera: No!
On screen: Jet takes another stone from the bowl. As Vera reaches out to take it back, Jet pulls the stone away and tucks it inside his t-shirt.
Vera: (loudly) No!
On screen: The caregiver steps in, leans down, and gently touches Jet’s hand.
Caregiver 1: Ok, Jet. You want to share the rock with Vera?
Jet: Sure.
On screen: Jet still has the rock in his shirt as he turns to look at the bowl of stones.
Caregiver 1: Yeah?
Jet: Yeah. You know we need to share the rocks?
Vera: No!
On screen: Jet picks up the bowl of stones and holds it in front of himself, close to Vera. Vera, now calmer, tries to take the bowl from Jet.
Example 2
Text on screen: Communicates about wants and adjusts actions to manage impulses and behaviors, with caregiver guidance
On screen: 30-month-old Scarlett, 35-month-old Angelina, and an older child, Eliana, sit outside with their caregiver. The caregiver is handing out musical instruments from a bag in her lap. Scarlett has jingle bells, and Angelina has a tambourine. The caregiver pulls a hand bell from the bag and holds it out toward Eliana.
Caregiver 2: Do you want a bell?
(bell ringing)
On screen: Eliana takes the hand bell. Both Scarlett and Angelina look at the hand bell with interest.
Angelina: Can I have it?
Scarlett: I want a bell.
On screen: Angelina holds her tambourine toward the caregiver. The caregiver takes it from Angelina and shakes it a bit.
Caregiver 2: Wow, you want to switch?
Angelina: Yeah.
Caregiver 2: Do you want to try the bells?
On screen: The caregiver touches the jingle bells resting in Scarlett’s lap. Scarlett looks toward her caregiver, frowning slightly.
Scarlett: I want a bell.
On screen: The caregiver touches the jingle bells in Scarlett’s lap again then points to Angelina.
Caregiver 2: OK. Can you give the bells to Angelina? Since you’re all done with them.
On screen: Scarlett picks up the jingle bells and hands them to Angelina.
Caregiver 2: Do you want to try the tambourine?
On screen: The caregiver holds out the tambourine for Scarlett, but Scarlett tries to look in the bag of instruments.
Scarlett: No.
Caregiver 2: OK.
Scarlett: I want a bell like Eliana.
On screen: The caregiver places the tambourine behind her. Scarlett leans in closer, her expression turning slightly sad.
Caregiver 2: You want a bell like Eliana?
Scarlett: No.
On screen: The caregiver reaches in the bag and pulls out another hand bell.
Caregiver 2: You don’t want a bell like Eliana?
Scarlett: I want this one.
On screen: Scarlett points inside the bag at a specific instrument.
Example 3
Text on screen: Communicates about wants
On screen: 32-month-old Ethan and 34-month-old Evie are in a classroom play area. Ethan picks up one of several bottles filled with colored water and looks at Evie. Evie walks toward Ethan and tries to take the bottle from his hands. Ethan turns around to keep Evie from taking the bottle and walks a few feet away. Evie frowns and looks at an approaching caregiver.
Evie: (whining)
Text on screen: Adjusts actions to manage impulses and behaviors, with caregiver guidance
Caregiver 3: Look there’s more. Look at all these bottles.
On screen: The caregiver points Evie and Ethan toward the other water bottles.
Caregiver 3: (Gasping) What color do you want?
On screen: Evie points toward Ethan.
Caregiver 3: Ethan, was Evie using that one? You can give that one to her, and you can pick a new one.
On screen: The caregiver points to the water bottles again. Ethan walks over and hands Evie the bottle.
Caregiver 3: Yeah if she said— was she using the purple?
On screen: Evie takes it and places it beside the other bottles. Ethan walks up behind Evie, looking at the row of bottles.
Caregiver 3: Ok, which one can Ethan have, Evie?
On screen: The caregiver sits down in a chair and points toward the bottles as Ethan waits patiently. Evie points to a bottle of orange water.
Evie: That one.
Caregiver 3: Hand it to him and say, “Here you go.”
On screen: Evie picks up the bottle and hands it to Ethan.
Evie: Here you go.