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Well... yeah? Duh? I definitely have different responses to my kids when my wife is around. I would be very surprised if the same was not true for her. Does an

• sjg007 6y ago
  The reverse is true too. Kids have different responses depending on which parent is present and if both are present.
  • stevekemp 6y ago
    Indeed, I find it fascinating seeing how differently our child will be with me, vs. when he's with his mother. Of course there are differences because he speaks a different language to each of us, but even so his playing-behaviour is different, and I guess he's used to doing different things with us both. (For example painting is something he associates with his mother, so he rarely wants to do that with me. While I'm the one who lets him choose music to listen to. As you'd expect for a three-year old he likes anything loud, Rammstein being a favourite, with The Prodigy being a good runner-up.)
    • jacobush 6y ago
      Let him try some dramatic classical music sometime!
      • stevekemp 6y ago
        He's heard Holst's planets, Wagner's "ride of the valkyries", and other pieces. Some of them likes, but usually the kind of music he wants to hear has loud/regular drums and lots of guitar. His reactions do amuse me though, I let him watch the video to Thriller before bedtime recently, and he thought that was awesome. But the Amy Winehouse video "Back To Black" was scary and he made me stop it!
        • jacobush 6y ago
          Try Bolero
• ourmandave 6y ago
  2AM crying... "Honey, it's your turn."
• travbrack 6y ago
  Part of what's useful about science is that when you study obvious things, sometimes you get a counterintuitive result. This time it confirmed the obvious, but that's not always true.