This Simply-Delicious Food Will Impact Your Toddler’s Academic Performance (Disturbing)

This Simply-Delicious Food Will Impact Your Toddler’s Academic Performance (Disturbing)

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It is simply amazing the types of studies that can be conducted to determine future behavioral patterns in toddlers. Siobhan Ryan, a contributing writer, to The Argus online, covers a study, candidly referred to as the raisin test.

Would you let your toddler participate in a study that would help collect predictions of their future academic performance among their peers?

Perhaps, if you knew exactly what the test entailed and the purpose in which it was conducted.

Read further with Ryan as she highlights the raisin test, and the amazing data collected concerning toddler’s academic performance.

Well, What could this simply-delicious food be? Let’s see what Siobhan Ryan has to say:

A RAISIN is helping predict how well toddlers will perform at school.

Researchers at the University of Brighton have worked with other experts to develop a simple test using the dried fruit.

According to their findings, this can help forecast how well a child will perform academically at age eight.

Using just the piece of fruit and a plastic cup, the test is based on how long a 20-month-old child can wait to pick up a raisin in front of them.

The toddlers were given a raisin that was placed under a cup within easy reach.

After three training runs, toddlers were asked to wait until they were told (60 seconds) they could touch and eat the raisin.

During the study it was found that those who were born very prematurely were more likely to take the raisin before the allotted time.

For the complete story check out Siobhan Ryan over at theargus.co.uk (click here)

Image credit: Tammra McCauley

 

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