Good control of children is easy to achieve

Although intelligent and nurtured in well-off families, children are still hard to succeed in the future if they are unable to control themselves.

Psychologists think parents should spend a lot of time and effort on training
autonomy for children to improve their ability to succeed later.
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Avshalom Caspi, a researcher at Duke University in New Zealand, tracks 1,000 children from birth to age 32 in Dunedin, New Zealand, Discovery News said.

To assess a child's self-control ability, the team of experts monitors a range of factors - such as impulsive behavior, patience, hyperactivity, ability to concentrate and resist transitory desire, level emotional restraint. Every two years they assess their level of self-control once on a scale. The first assessment is conducted when they enter the third year.

The research team collected information about relatives, health, assets and criminal behavior of the respondents when they reached the age of 32. They then considered the relationship between self-control and the level of income, social status, intelligent index of the object.

' Children with low self-restraint often make mistakes when they reach adulthood like smoking, getting pregnant during high school, dropping out of school ,' the team concluded.

If you do not make the same mistakes, children with low control ability are still inferior to friends who have high control ability in many other ways such as income, social status.

In another study, the team analyzed data on 500 other egg twins. They found that, in a twins, children are less likely to control themselves, risk dropping out of school, smoking, breaking the law, and having unwanted pregnancies. This trend remains the same for all 500 twins.

"The results surprised me. I used to think intelligence is the most important sign to predict a person's ability to succeed. But research shows that the ability to control is the main sign. Moffitt said most.

Moffitt insists that everyone's ability to succeed in life increases if we improve our self-control. Children who are able to improve their restraint levels will progress faster than other children. That means adults should spend a lot of time and effort to help children improve their self-control, not just focus on facilitating their learning.

" We believe that parents who are smart children are the ones who are able to help them increase their ability to control themselves, " the team said.

Janice Zeman, a child psychologist at William and Mary University in the US, agrees that parents play an important role in the ability of children to control themselves.

" If parents teach children how to control themselves, you won't feel hard to monitor their studies at school, " Zeman said.