The Bird Show.

Researchers at Stanford say that there is an easy in-home test you can do with your kids tonight to determine if they're more apt to be successful in school and in life.

And it's just going to take you two marshmallows.

And they say the genius of this experiment was that they followed children for 18 years after they gave them this experiment.

And this was an amazingly strong predictor of their success in school and their adjustment,

their happiness, and even in their popularity.

What difference does it make if you know?

If you know what.

Oh, if they're going to be successful.

Do you think you can change their fate i think

with the results of this test you can you can fix it okay all right here is the test and it's so

easy you're going to go how in the world is that going to be any kind of indication on how your kids

are going to be successful here's what you do you place one marshmallow in front of your kid

okay you then say to your child you can eat this marshmallow now Here's what you do. You place one marshmallow in front of your kid.

You then say to your child, you can eat this marshmallow now, or you can wait until I come back and I'll give you two marshmallows.

And then you leave the room for 15 minutes.

Now 15 minutes to a 5-year-old or a 6-year-old.

That is eternity right there. Is that the age where you're supposed to do the test?

It doesn't exactly say, let's see, 11 kids. They say toddler age. So what are we talking about? Four, five, six, three, four, five.

Yeah, two, three. I think three, four, five, something like that. And I've got a link up to this on our website where they did this test on a TV station in Minnesota,

so it'll give you a better indicator how old the kids were.

But I think, you know, three, four, five years old.

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