One of the things that sucks about actually being able to “do your own research” is how I’m constantly being shown the ways that my patients, people I care about, or in this case all American children, are suffering horribly from easily preventable problems that I am still unable to solve in any way
I remember reading that some follow-up on that marshmallow study showed that kids who were more likely to eat the marshmallow now vs wait were more likely to come from precarious situations where there aren't future guarantees
I grew up in a family that regularly went through cycles of poverty for most of my life. To this day, we live in a multi-generational household.
When I was little, we lived with my grandparents. Now, my mother, her partner, my grandfather and I all live in the same house.