Self-control is good

Stop it! Don’t touch that! Sit down and be quiet! Whether you heeded these commands as a child could help predict your future. A new study suggests that people who show less self-control as young children are more likely to have failing health, greater debt, and run-ins with the law later in life.

Children who had less self-control at age 5 were more likely to have begun smoking, performing badly in school, and acting out at age 12, and these problems continued in later life. Read more here or here.

Tags: Education, Psychology, Science