Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids

This article mentions the marshmallow experiment.

I am confused do people actually like eating marshmallows, if so why?

It always seems to be taken as read that they’re irresistible. Why on Earth

> Think about Japan, where kids are often taught to wait quietly for meals or gifts

Author got the country and items correct but not associated correctly. In Japan, kids pass the marshmallow test with flying colors but fail the same test if it's a gift. In America kids generally pass the gift test (hypothesis is that they're used to waiting for presents on Christmas).

source - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-culture-affec...

another source - https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/07/21/new-take-marshmall...

The point about trust/predictability is a nice new take on the delay gratification story.

Good points from a motivated new! parent. When you get to your third kid, you tend to lose that burning ambition and think you know it all. We should always be learning.

Marshmallows, twizzlers, any of those corner store “cakes” like twinkies, the McRib, pop tarts etc. are absolutely disgusting hyped things I don’t understand. It’s like they manage to take sugar that most people like and make it inedible.

People always use the marshmallow test as a sign that the participant can’t delay gratification.

But what if they just understand time-value-of-marshmallow. Sometimes marshmallow now is better than marshmallow later.