Waiting only helps kids develop self-control if we've first observed #1 and #2, above. In other words, if the parent makes the child wait for longer than she's developmentally able (not soothing as in ...

You won’t be judged for thinking that if a child is intelligent then he or she will inevitably succeed. But that’s not always the case. According to Paul Tough in his best-selling book, How Children ...

The Marshmallow Test was a study conducted in the early 1960s to examine how kids handled delayed gratification. Kids who ...

Last month I received a query from a distinguished professor of neuroscience asking whether there is any literature linking mentalization to self-control. This was a reminder of how segregated ...