Frustrated

For John, BLUF:  Children who are frustrated easily do not have mechanisms ot cope with the problems of life.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Link found between self-control in childhood and success later in life

From Medical Express, by Reporter Bob Yirka, 5 january 2021.

Here is the lede plus one:

An international team of researchers has found a link between degree of self-control during childhood and success later on in life.  In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describe their decades-long study of self-control in children and how it correlated with outcomes later on in life.

In this unique study, the researchers set out to learn more about the relationship between self-control and aging—specifically, they wanted to know how well children with self-control issues fare as they grow older—in this case, to age 45. To find out, they studied 1,037 children born between 1972 and 1973 (in New Zealand) who were included in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study as they aged from three to 11 years old.  In so doing, they made self-control assessments of the children by talking to their parents, their teachers and to the children themselves.  Each of the children were graded on characteristics such as impulsivity or how easily they grew frustrated when working on projects, and whether they followed through on such projects despite their frustration.

This is an interesting observation and suggests that one of the roles of school might well be to help young people to learn to deal with life's frustrations, so they have the coping tools to take into adulthood.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff