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The Marshmallow Test (Lesson + Fill-in-the-blanks)

The premise is simple: You can eat one marshmallow now or, if you can wait, you get to eat two marshmallows later.

Self-control predicts academic, personal, health, and economic outcomes. The famous “marshmallow experiment” showed that preschool students who demonstrated more self-control had better academic and social outcomes decades later—including less drug use and higher SAT scores—than did those who demonstrated less self-control as young children.

In this video, 4 out of 11 kids ate the marshmallow within the first minute.

What can parents do to help kids develop self-discipline?

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According to Dr. David Walsh, it's the (kid / parent)'s job to push against the limits, and it’s the (kid / parent)'s job to set the limits.

We have a culture that says "eat the marshmallow". For (short / long) -term relief of giving kids what they want, we pay a (short / long) -term price for not teaching self-discipline.

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The classic marshmallow test demonstrates why the ability to exercise self-control is a strong predictor of success in later life.

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