Self-discipline

Both traditional and modern educators support the virtue of self-control because it helps kids resist temptation and control their destructive inclinations. The Stanford marshmallow research involved placing young children in a room with a marshmallow on the table and testing their ability to self-regulate. According to the study, deviant behavior is recurring in comparable circumstances throughout time and can forecast a person's long-term success or failure. Understanding the value of delayed gratification, which entails making sacrifices and working hard now to obtain something wonderful later, can aid in making predictions about a child's features with relation to accomplishing their goals. The phrase’ eat marshmallow’ in our culture means to fall into temptation and failure to withhold present yearnings for better outcomes in the future. Eating of marshmallow before completing the assigned task shows that the child lacks self-control, which is associated with values such as low SAT scores, mistrustful, stubbornness, indecisiveness, and less self-confidence. However, delayed gratification leads to good impulse control, positive peer interactions, sharing, and competitive feeling in assigned activities. This behavior modification promotes success because the child only expects a reward after fulfilling an assigned task.

Eating the marshmallow shows that a person has social instability because they lack gratification and have trouble overriding their immediate impulses to accomplish their goals. Such traits can be a distraction during the big test since impedes a child from resisting temptations to focus on doing important things. Therefore, disappointment leads to bad health, unsuccessful relationships and frustrations in life. The society can regain delayed gratification if parents start modeling it at home. They should have high standards for rewarding a behavior; for instance, holding back rewards until a child meets particular rules or criteria.

Recently, I ate a marshmallow when I failed to resist the temptation of playing computer games before completing my school work. However, I sometimes delay gratification by putting off my computer and phone when I need to complete my school work and other responsibilities to avoid getting tempted. I plan on having children, and one way that I will discipline them is by setting limits on things they do and always saying no when the child asks to do something wrong. The lesson should be to teach them to adjust to any situation and eventually become dependent and fruitful in the future.