Infantile masturbation, or Infantile Gratification Disorder, is a normal self-soothing behaviour in babies, and parents ...

A new study has found that U.S children are more likely to delay gratification in opening a gift than in waiting to eat, while the opposite was true with children growing up in Japanese culture.

Overcoming impulses to enjoy here-and-now rewards in order to attain later benefits is fundamental to achieving goals. Such delaying of gratification is often measured by the well-known "marshmallow ...

Delayed gratification is supposed to lead to greater rewards. Sometimes. A famous study in the late 1960s by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel involved preschool children at Stanford’s nursery ...

So, dear parents of small ones, you can pretty much kiss day trips goodbye between the naps and general stamina (or lack thereof) of your Mini-Me's, right? Well, perhaps. But just because you have one ...