Originally Posted by ultramarina
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I feel like DS8 year old would have easily passed the marshmallow test, as he has no impulse issues, but he is like an absent minded professor. He may very well try to put his underwear on over his pants, forgets to take his backpack when leaving the house,

My DS7 is like this. I kind of think he just isn't very focused on the mundane?


Ahh, that's a nice way to put it!

I have a hunch that schools routinely overload EF while under challenging cognitive abilities. Drives me nuts, because really it is the parents who have to be on top of it all to make sure the child doesn't flounder. Yet another way to unfairly prefer high parental SES to the child's innate abilities.