For example a parent teaches executive functions when they teach their children to clean their room. From a child's perspective they may not see the point of cleaning their room because they aren't done playing with the toys that are out or done reading the book laying on the bed. However, the rule may be that the child has to clean their room before having a friend over so the child has to remember and follow through with the rule of cleaning their room before having a friend over and when they do this successfully they have achieved an executive function. Where an executive function is also the ability to hold back on impulses in order to respond to a request from someone else, an example of this is when a parent is filling a pool in the backyard. A child's first reaction is to get in the pool. However, the parent may tell the child to wait until they have it filled. When the child waits until the parent is done filling the pool as asked they achieved executive function on this task and held off doing the activity to respond to the request of the parent.
Delaying gratification is a component of effortful control and is demonstrated when a person gives up a smaller immediate reward for exchange of a more valuable reward after a period of waiting. For example, when a child gives up having a snack fifteen to thirty minutes before dinner is ready in order to eat dinner. The child has given up the snack ( the immediate reward) for a more valuable reward (dinner) after waiting the time period until is ready. Whenever a child doesn't do something and it takes effort not to do it because it's something they really want to do they are developing effortful control which develops self-regulation as the regulate their behavior to what is expected or appropriate.
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