The de­velopment of self-regulatory ability depends partly on biological factors, such as the child’s temperament, and partly on contextual factors, such as parenting practice

Children are willing to comply with parental demands because they want to please the individuals who love them; they try not to displease because they fear loss of that love. According to Damon (1990), this is the foundation of respect for authority and social order in society. Parenting practices in which there is extensive verbal give-and-take, reasoning, and non-punitive adult control are known to foster the development of self-control in European American childre