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Want To Teach Your Kids Self-Control? Ask A Cameroonian Farmer

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German and Cameroonian kids were part of an experiment based on the classic "marshmallow test": Put a single treat before a child but tell the child if he or she waits, say, 10 minutes, a second treat will be given. (Nathalie Dieterle for NPR)
German and Cameroonian kids were part of an experiment based on the classic "marshmallow test": Put a single treat before a child but tell the child if he or she waits, say, 10 minutes, a second treat will be given. (Nathalie Dieterle for NPR)

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