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What the researchers found astounded
through a worksheet. As parents, we can them. Those children who had managed
be role models for our children and teach to control themselves in order to get the
second marshmallow had more successful
marriages, careers, and lives in general.
The ability to control themselves and de-
personal goals) and then sharing our tri-
umphs and failures with our children will to set goals and achieve them even if it
teach them that it is okay to fail and then
keep on working towards a goal. Parents children set goals and then working with
and educators need to model persistence them to achieve them is an excellent way
- to develop self-control.
eth tries.
Curiosity. Curiosity is about asking ques-
Grit. Grit goes hand in hand with persis-
tence. Children who fail and then pull works. The truth is that you cannot “teach”
themselves up and start again are exhibit- curiosity. You can, however, model curios-
ing grit. They know that though it is pain-
ful and their knees are scraped, they can
try again. Without grit, there is no persis- to look them up. You can also answer his
-

Self control. A famous study in the 1960s, goes on he will develop skills to answer
Bulletin
tested children on their self-control. The them himself.
very young children were handed a marsh-
mallow and told that they could get a sec-
believing yourself. In order to take risks,
came back in the room in order to eat the

and did not receive a second, but others -
sang or talked to themselves in order to cess – and part of it comes from overcom-
ing failure. As parents and educators, we
when the researcher returned, those chil- have to let children fail when they deserve
dren received a second marshmallow. The to fail in order to help them learn to over-
researchers then followed those children come that failure.
for the next several decades.