By Brenda Goodman
Jan. 24, 2011 -- Children who have good self-control early in life are more likely to grow into healthy, financially secure, and trouble-free adults than those with poor self-discipline, a new study shows.The authors of the 32-year study, which has followed a group of almost 1,000 New Zealanders since birth, say the differences between kids who have good self-discipline and those who don't begin to be apparent in children as young as age 3.
Self-control appears to be so important that it may play an approximately equal role with other well-known influences on a person's life course, such as intelligence and social class.
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