"For Kids, Self-Control Factors Into Future Success" NPR 2/14/11
NPR picks up on the long-term study recently done by Duke University psychologists looking at children in New Zealand and Great Britain and the effect of early self-control (or lack of it) as time goes by. I first saw the study covered in ScienceDaily.
Neither story really contextualizes this recent work. It's a hot topic and I linked to a few other pieces in that earlier post. Now I was reminded that the first chapter of Ellen Galinsky's Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Skills Every Child Needs is "Skill One: Focus and Self-Control." And Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong's Tools of the Mind program places heavy emphasis on self-regulation, and offers strategies to encourage that.
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