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Most valuable thing for me in that interview was this pearl on how a successful person raises kids. We do the time outs, but I had never thought of the bathroom
by niels_olson 15y ago
Most valuable thing for me in that interview was this pearl on how a successful person raises kids. We do the time outs, but I had never thought of the bathroom. Great idea.
> I think the kids have grown up really well, and I don’t think it hurt them that we had rules in the family that were fairly strictly enforced (usually with a five-minute timeout in the bathroom). We had a very strict “no whining” rule, for example, and I’ve seen kids that should definitely have been brought up with a couple of rules like that.
> That said, maybe they’re just naturally good kids. I don’t remember the last time I sent them to the bathroom (but it’s still a joke in our family: “If you don’t behave, you’ll spend the rest of the day in the bathroom”)
- J3L2404 15y ago>We had a very strict “no whining” rule A good portion of the adults on the planet need this rule.
- aangjie 15y agoAgreed.. though i kind of think it applies to me as well :-)
- jannotti 15y agoMy sister had her children trained. If they whined, she would ask, "What do whiners get?" They had to yell back, "Nothing!" (Or the siblings would do it, if the whiner was too pouty.)
- dhx 15y agoIt's worth noting that Linus has three daughters. The brilliance with this rule is that his daughters may avoid spending hours fighting over the bathroom during their teenage years. Not even psychology escapes the scope of Linus' hacking prowess.