Cookie Monster to Teach Kids Self-Control

By Tim Molloy NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - If Cookie Monster can hold off on eating a cookie, so can you. That's the message the Sesame Workshop hopes to share with kids in the upcoming season of "Sesame Street," in which Cookie Monster will teach children self-regulation, a set of skills that help them behave, pay attention, follow rules, and even resist the lure of cookies. Kindergarten teachers will be grateful: they consider self-regulation even more essential to school readiness than skills like reading and counting, Sesame Workshop says. ...



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