Teaching your children values is one of those things you have to question, you just have to ask yourself – what is the point?
I know, I know, you're thinking:
“Jon – there's no way you're going to convince me that my lying, stealing, violent kids can absorb values. It's impossible.”
Children really aren't all evil though, some of them even say nice things and then do nice things. It's rare. It's an anomaly, but it happens. In fact, some people believe that kids actually don't mean to be so heartless, they just don't know a better way. They don't “get it” so to speak.
I'm kidding of course. I'm almost sure of it.
Have you ever seen this experiment with kids and marshmallows? “You can wait 15 minutes and get a second marshmellow or eat the current one and not get a second marshmallow”. That's basically the experiment. Then you leave the room, turn on the camera and watch pure suffering. The crazy thing? This guy ended up following up on the experiment. He had over 600 individuals particpate, so he sent surveys out along with an S.A.T. Score request.
The result? Simple: the ones who waited scored higher, and were better at maintaining friends.
Do you know how long 15 minutes is? I'm not sure I'd pass that test as an adult..
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