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Well-reported? I rather hope people were misquoted. While this is undoubtedly a very interesting field, I found the article as written rather misguided. You ne
by frossie 18y ago
Well-reported? I rather hope people were misquoted.
While this is undoubtedly a very interesting field, I found the article as written rather misguided. You need a brain scan to tell if your child is timid? Seriously? Oh and you would shout at your child, if only you hadn't been handed a scan at birth telling you your child's brain is such that it shouldn't be shouted at?
As for the advice about using this kind of information to affect how to raise a child, it runs contrary to all the best current child development advice. The child psychologists maintain that you should in every way avoid pigeonholing children (eg "she is the adventurous one", "he is the creative one"). If that is so, I can't imagine anything worse that "he is the one likely to get addicted to drugs".
This kind of thing is a small glimmer of understanding. Let's not rush to speculating about applications until we've thought about it a bit more, eh?
- TJensen 18y agoI agree that we shouldn't pigeon-hole children, but they do find their niches, regardless. Personally, as a father, I think the more interesting application of data like this (if true, I tend to wonder about the order of causality as well) would be around how can I get my child out of their comfort zone. This is not shouting at my timid child, it is exposing the highly methodical child to free-form creative activities. Also, coming from a family with a history of substance abuse problems, knowing that a child had a particular predisposition towards abuse would be useless without a solid way to do something about it. Otherwise, it just becomes yet another thing a parent needs to fear and become over protective about.
- tokenadult 18y agoWell-reported? Yes, I mean it was reported well enough to see some of the holes in the study.