or emotional arousal.
or by withdrawing from oth
ers to reduce high physical
than to open a gift. Learning to persist in complex learning tasks that stretch children’s skills is one of the most impor- tant outcomes of healthy self-regulation. To regulate vari- ous arousal levels, children must recognize when arousal is not optimal and take steps to modify it. Children often do this by squirming or looking away (such as out a window or at other children’s activity)
to arouse fading attention,