In We Thinkers! Volume 2 we delve deeper into how to figure out the social clues to share space, interact, and regulate emotions. We use the term ?social executive functioning? to discuss that we are helping children learn to better self-regulate their behavior and emotions when sharing space or interacting with others. Social executive functioning is used in the classroom when sitting in a group to learn, it?s used when running onto the playground to play with others, and kids use it to figure out how to join a play group that?s pretending to be pirates. It involves surveying a social situation, understanding what the group is doing, considering others? ideas, having enough flexibility (in thoughts and behavior) to ride out the shifts and changes that may occur, negotiating roles, turns, or positions, and self-regulating to keep emotions, actions and reactions under control when problems arise.