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Teaching Children Self-Control

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An author of a chapter on self-control has to demonstrate just such self-control. In my own case this was necessary for two reasons. The first reason is that I was on sabbatical leave at the University of Hawaii (escaping the Canadian winter) when the completion date for this chapter was approaching. Can you think of a better illustration of a situation that calls for “self-control”?

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Meichenbaum, D. (1979). Teaching Children Self-Control. In: Lahey, B.B., Kazdin, A.E. (eds) Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9802-8_1

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