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Parenting stubborn kids can be, um.... challenging. When you're trying to explain to your toddler for the umpteenth time why socks are necessary in winter or convince your preschooler that green foods truly aren't poisonous, you might want to throw up your hands in despair. New research might help, offering you a fresh injection of perspective for those days when you're on the edge of losing your cool.
Stubbornness, it seems, isn't just good for driving parents to distraction (or a couple of glasses of wine). It's also a really good predictor of a child's future success in life.
That's the conclusion of a new study that followed 700 kids for decades, starting when they were 9 and checking in with them as adults of 40. Each participant's personality was investigated at the beginning of the study, with the research team looking at traits like studiousness and conscientiousness, as well as a propensity for defiance. Then the scientists tried to uncover which traits were most correlated with professional success later on.
"Guess who earned the highest salaries in the end? The kids who ignored both rules and their parents. So, if your kid always demands the bigger cookie, they'll probably grow up to demand the bigger bonus," reports blog Fatherly, summing up the study results in entertaining style.
Read more here. (Inc.)
Stubbornness, it seems, isn't just good for driving parents to distraction (or a couple of glasses of wine). It's also a really good predictor of a child's future success in life.
That's the conclusion of a new study that followed 700 kids for decades, starting when they were 9 and checking in with them as adults of 40. Each participant's personality was investigated at the beginning of the study, with the research team looking at traits like studiousness and conscientiousness, as well as a propensity for defiance. Then the scientists tried to uncover which traits were most correlated with professional success later on.
"Guess who earned the highest salaries in the end? The kids who ignored both rules and their parents. So, if your kid always demands the bigger cookie, they'll probably grow up to demand the bigger bonus," reports blog Fatherly, summing up the study results in entertaining style.
Read more here. (Inc.)
