Having dinner and there’s a cute young boy at the next table just wailing miserably into his mother’s lap. I find myself thinking... that tactic has a shelf-life, doesn’t it? Most kids stop after a certain age. When? Why? How? 
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Small children have difficulty imagining future consequences, and projecting themselves into the next scene, so they often get stuck. Before 3, they usually have difficulty to drop goals (they identify with the goal, have no plan B and are afraid to not reach it).
The Kegan follow-up research by Cook Greuter frequently mention time in the developmental stages. Apparently it takes to stage 4 (a second level of adulthood!) to project oneself more than a short time into the future
