Our two young offspring (hereafter called owl-cats) really like watching this experiment. (Poor dears, we have tried all sorts of child development experiments on them, including this one. Owl even stuck his tongue out at his newborn to see if he would mimic his face.)
We were excited to hear that a longitudinal study on the kids in the original Stanford experiment showed that in adulthood the children who could wait for the marshmallows were happier--and healthier. We explained this to the owl-cats, and the oldest asked,
"But why were they healthier? They ate more marshmallows!"
Good question.
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