In Sacrament meeting Sunday we heard a talk that referred to a "marshmallow test" conducted with children. Several children were offered a marshmallow which they could eat immediately, or if they could wait for 15 minutes they could get two marshmallows. The topic of the Sacrament meeting talk was sacrificing now to get something better later. This marshmallow test was a long-term study and the researchers followed up with the children later in life. They showed a correlation between children who were able to wait for the two marshmallows and higher test scores, better paying jobs, etc. We found the test on youtube, and it's pretty entertaining to watch these kids try to resist. Leah and Kaitlyn really wanted to try this experiment themselves (of course the test was foiled because they started out knowing the objective of the test). For Family Home Evening I let them do the experiment. Jared is in Germany for the week, so this was a very easy lesson, activity and treat all in one. :) I can see how we can continue talking about this object lesson for quite a while because it was something they could really relate to. Anyway, enjoy the youtube clip!
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I've seen this before. So funny! How did Leah and Kaitlyn do? Hope you're surviving without Jared!
What a great idea for FHE! I can see all sorts of great discussion ideas related to it -- like if the kids had been able to do some other good activities while they waited, it wouldn't have been so hard to wait, etc. Thanks for sharing!
Leah and Kaitlyn left their marshmallow (and piece of candy we added), but they thought 15 minutes was a LONG time!
That was AWESOME!!
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