The Marshmallow Test: Cute or Cruel?

Ok for one, this was a test on temptation, in which ALL CHILDREN will one day in their life be face to face with. This was not some "lab rat" test in any way. This is just researchers way of seeing how many children can resist temptation or just jump right in. Im not saying the little red head girl, who btw is adorable, is going to jump right into everything she is faced with in life, but this is just a simple little test of TEMPTATION!! NO WHERE IN THIS RTICLE DOES IT SAY CHILDREN ARE LAB RATS....get over yourself woman! Children are going to face many obsticles in their li9ves, and if you teach them early about temptation then 9 times out of 10 they will most likely succeed, this wasn't cruel, it was brilliant. the little boy who waited ever so patiently got what he was promised int he end, the little girl who ate it before the woman left the room, didn't, like i said a billion times, its called TEMPTATION...NOT LAB RATS AND CRUELTY!

and also, if someone put me in a room with my favorite meal in front of me and told me i could eat it now or wait, i would wait because i can resist temptation. When i see those delicious shakes from Sonic on tv, i dont hop right up and drive the 15 or so miles across the town i live in to go get one. If you teach your children early on about temptation, then they will most likely not do things other children tempt them to do , like drugs, alcohol and sex. Again, brilliant idea these people had here, just too dang cute

Get a grip this was little more than a Candid Camera routine. If Alan Fundt (sp?) would have been leading the kids into the room in disguise you would have thought he was a dirty old man. Pity your kids.

Really Marilyn?!! Really?!!

Marilyn, I respect you for having 7 children, I have 4 myself. But this was in no way a lab rat test and it was not cruel. These children were given a choice, Have you ever been shopping for example with one of the children? And there was something they wanted from the store but they didn't have enough money for this item, so you tell them next time we come shopping you will have enough money and you can buy the item you want or you can settle for something less. If they really want it and they can be patient there reward will be greater. Just making a point!.

i agree this was not crule and in the end is how a child learns . as for the abortion comment it should be ignored by all of us, seems it was made as an attention seeking tool. and if it wasent your a person with many problems , so was my father , a drunk abusive waist of a father that talked and acted just like you mr.we no longer talk ,havent in allmost four years and now hes a deing man thats allone none of his kids speak to him. and just so you know what path your going down if you have kids, my last coversation with him ended with a fight that landed him in the hospitol for two weeks so if this is your true nature, i hope the same for you mr. its taken me the better part of therty five years to undo the monster in me that people as yourself create.

To those calling children who wait patiently to be rewarded with more than they started out with greedy, and to those who claim they have the right to decide a child should be aborted, shame on you. You have made a complete ass of yourself and simply foolish. Shame on you!

Ashley