Interesting Links for 20-04-2013

[andrewducker]

• Germany tells Google to improve its customer service.
  (tags: google germany customerservice )
• Children who live in unreliable environments won't delay gratification - because they know they won't get it later.
  (tags: environment children DelayedGratification )
• Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge (Joining the Boy Scouts, who did so last month)
  (tags: girls games technology children )
• Cezch ambassador releases statement confirming that the Czech Republic is not Chechnya
  (tags: geography usa )
• Phillip Schofield took a pair of German prostitutes for lunch instead of watching the Berlin Wall being brought down.
  (tags: )
• Have someone point at your pointer.
  (tags: pointless )

Comments

[teresafloyd]

Having grown up in an unreliable environment, I have to say that I concur with the caveat about the marshmallow task.

For a child in such an environment, there is no "later" because he or she can only trust "now" and "never".

Many do overcome through imagination and develop the ability to wait for gratification.