From: The Atlantic
When Do Babies Learn Self-Control?
The Atlantic:
Last year’s season of Sesame Street was a rough one for Cookie Monster.
For its 44th year, the show dedicated itself to teaching its young viewers about executive functioning, an umbrella term for cognitive skills like attention to detail, strategizing, and other mental processes that connect past experiences to present decision-making—including self-control, an idea easily demonstrated by making a junk-food junkie wait for his sugar fix.
And wait he did. In a recurring segment called “Cookie’s Crumby Pictures,” the show’s writers spoofed the plots of made-for-adult movies to create sketches with names like “The Hungry Games” and “The Spy Who Loved Cookies,” each featuring some outlandish reason why the chronically hungry Muppet had to hold on before chowing down.
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