The Marshmallow Experiment: Does Your Child Know How to Wait?
Posted in discipline, family life on May 19th, 2009
I read a fascinating article in The New Yorker yesterday. (Which, having read the magazine weekly for years now, is a sentence that pops out of my mouth pretty frequently.) It’s called “Don’t! The Secret of Self Control,” by Jonah Lehrer. The piece opens with a description of an experiment conducted in the late 1960s, [...]