dvorak
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You can google video results for the “marshmallow test”, they actually have videos of kids trying really hard to resist and it’s cute and kinda funny too. Anyway, it is a lesson in delayed gratification for younger children.
Cute and funny? How about cruel and nasty. Those kids are much too young to be left alone with temptation for 5 minutes, let alone 15. It seems that the kids are holding back from eating the marshmallow not because of the lure of a second one to be received in the future, but because of a sense of guilt and fear of “failing” the “test”. Plus, strapping them (figuratively) to the chair with nothing to do during the 15 minutes is awful.
And then the “founder” of this test proceeds to predict the rest of the child’s life based on the outcome of this test. Never mind for a minute how ridiculous it is to do that, but once the results are out, which of today’s helicopter parents is going to allow their kid to fail the test? “Now little Timmy, you go in that room, and if you ever want to be a CEO and have a happy marriage you don’t eat that marshmallow, OK?”