Dr. Jim Taylor

Blessings of the Thin Envelope

A number of my clients and other young people I know just received their college acceptance and rejection letters. Not surprisingly, some are ecstatic and others are devastated. Frank Bruni, the New York Times columnist, wrote a piece today that put the exercise of college acceptance and rejection into a healthy perspective. Reading the column [...]

Eating Marshmallows Doesn’t Predict Future Success

By Dr. Jim Taylor| 2014-01-14T09:01:54-08:00 January 14th, 2014|Categories: Parenting|Tags: academic success, achievement, child development, delayed gratification, education, emotional intelligence, marshmallow, maturity, Mischel, SAT|0 Comments

Many of you may be familiar with the famous "marshmallow" experiments conducted by the psychologist Walter Mischel in 1960s and '70s. In the studies, 4-year-old children have two marshmallows (or another treat) placed in front of them and told that they can either eat one right away or wait to eat two when the researcher [...]