Share Photo: (Photo : August de Richelieu from Pexels) Executive function are skills that help people to focus, plan, prioritize, work toward goals, adapt to new and unexpected conditions, as well as engage in abstract thinking and planning. Aside from these, executive functions also oversee and arrange a lot of tasks. But how to develop executive function, especially in children? ALSO READ: Contrary to what people think, executive function does not refer to a single skill and does not grow in a linear way. By default in childhood, that is challenging. The reason behind this is the fact that although executive function skills begin to evolve in the first year of life, they are not fully grown until early adulthood.