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Sat, 05 Aug 2006

This is quite possibly the single most important thing I've read all year. No shit. Read it now.

Maybe it's the cyclist in the park, trim under his sleek metallic blue helmet, cruising along the dirt path... at three miles an hour. On his tricycle.

(link) [Psychology Today]

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On 8/5/2006 16:34:22
Bjorngrímnir wrote

Some very good points. Something I found interesting was this statement, from page 3: "What they're really doing, he stresses, is 'showing kids how to work the system for their own benefit.'" The reason I find that so interesting is because it reflects that parents have the impression that the surest way to get ahead is to manipulate the system. By teaching this to kids, parents are passing on, what I can only say cynically, is a survival technique in modern society. Why would today's parents have that impression, I wonder? One thing that I did not like about this article is that it gave the impression that depression is almost guaranteed by these behaviors. I think that's misleading, considering the fact that we are still unsure exactly what causes depression - different people will react differently to the same situations. The other thing, kind of along the same lines, was a tendency to implicate micromanagement parenting styles as explanations for comparative statistics without suggesting the possibility for other explanations. What comes to mind is the percentage reaching adult maturity by age 30, compared to 1960. If getting married and having children is affected by having landed "a job with benefits," which it is; then the higher number of baby-boomers holding on to their positions longer than their predecessors, thus making it harder for younger generations to work their way into professional positions, could also explain why the percentage has changed since 1960. I'm not pointing those things out to disagree with the overall jist of the article, though - I fully agree with the article, and will print it out and keep it handy for when my wife and I have kids. Thanks for posting this, Dave.

On 8/7/2006 09:55:51
Thorolf wrote

I remember a book that my 4th grade teacher read to us, about a kid who was blinded in an accident and went to a school for the blind to learn how to adapt to his new circumstances, eventually culminating in his getting a guide dog. One scene really stood out for me, and has stuck with me over time. As the kid is being taken around the school and oriented to the physical space, his guide has him feel a particular sharp corner of a mantelpiece that's right around head level. As he feels the corner, the kid asks 'Isn't it dangerous having this sharp corner right where people could run into it?". His guide replies "Do you really expect the rest of the world to pad all of its sharp corners for you?" I guess the answer now is "Yes, of course..."

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