The Marshmallow Test: Good Or Bad?

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The marshmallow test is to see how kids might do in the further. The person that found the marshmallow test had studied it for 40 and more years. He wanted to know when kids learn self control which was also called will power. The kids were 4 to 6 years old when they did this so if they had will power if they did not eat the marshmallow if they would get one more and then it keeps going until they can not handle it and eat the marshmallow. Not a lot of kids did not eat the marshmallow but most did. After 14 to 15 years they went to find those kids. The kids that did not eat the marshmallow had good grades the ones that did eat the marshmallow had not so good or very bad grades. By the research that they found they were sure that the kids

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