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What? If you found your child was lacking in a valuable life skill, you wouldn't try to teach that skill?
by hgsgm 4y ago
What?
If you found your child was lacking in a valuable life skill, you wouldn't try to teach that skill?
- nonethewiser 4y agoBut that's precisely what is so ridiculous. Eating marshmallows slowly is not a valuable life skill.
- teruakohatu 4y agoWhat is the skill they should teach ? To always eat lunch before doing a psych experiment? To like sugar, or marshmallows in particular, just slightly less? That high self-control in extremely low-reward situations is good? Teaching a child to do basic budgeting with pocket money is likely to have a vastly higher impact than slight delayed gratification with candy.
- BCM43 4y agoSee hgsgm's comment. Just because the test predicts outcomes doesn't mean what it's testing is causing the outcomes.
- Izkata 4y agoUh, same person.