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by Tichy 14y ago
I only read the newspaper articles about Amy Chua, and if they were true, then in my opinion she tortured her daughters. I remember that they had to repeat piano pieces zillions of times and were not allowed to go to the toilet until they g
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by Tichy 14y ago
I'm not sure if the article I linked to was even the same one that I read a while ago, it was just the second thing that popped up in Google. I regard it more as a curiosity anyway. I think it would have been better if they had made that ex
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by Tichy 14y ago
In general I suppose it is bad if people can't be honest with their feelings. As one extreme example, I think post-pregnancy depression is actually quite common and can even drive mothers to suicide. Since they can not talk about it because
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by Tichy 14y ago
I was always decided that kids would not be what gives meaning of life to me. That wouldn't even work, because what would you tell your kids? That they also have to have kids to find meaning in life? And so on with their kids... So it may s
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by Tichy 14y ago
If he holds socioeconomic status constant, how can he arrive at student income being a strong predictor? Doesn't equal socioeconomic status kind imply equal "student income"? Also I wonder how quality of education is being measured?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Ok granted, it can go horribly wrong. Although I think there are homes for disabled people. But if that happens, it is of course very sad and not happiness inducing. I've heard stories about people who are very happy with their disabled kid
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by Tichy 14y ago
Eventually you should try to find a babysitter (grandparents often work well, but not everybody has the option) and go out without the child. Although I admit we have done that only twice in the last two years... What costs 1500$ more - per
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by Tichy 14y ago
OK, true, but not every intelligent child becomes brilliant in something.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Yeah well science sometimes is surprising, otherwise, why even bother to do it? I am tempted, but I'll resist for now to google for the article. Must resist... :-/ Edit: damn it... Luckily it was the second hit http://www.slate.com/article
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by Tichy 14y ago
I actually would prefer a stay-at-home mom. The wife's job is creating a lot of stress. Women who work tend to be in a foul mood (just my experience anyway).
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by Tichy 14y ago
So propaganda against children is OK, but for children is not? If people say what makes them happy, what is wrong with that? It doesn't imply that it would work for everyone, but it implies that it might work for some other people, too. Why
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by Tichy 14y ago
But does that correlation still hold in developed countries? I guess reasons to have more kids in poor countries is that they'll help you with your work and take care of you when you are old. Besides, some of them are going to die premature
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by Tichy 14y ago
Classifying women as mothers or non-mothers seems correct. What other possible categories are there? Either you are a mother, or you are not (in fact the same classification system could be applied to men, too). Just saying. Also, really, d
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by Tichy 14y ago
That seems fairly typical: parents who are convinced they did everything right, and never realize they are emotional train wrecks. So they can blame it all on the children. Whatever - it is a complex issue, having children is not like buyin
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by Tichy 14y ago
That assumes pressure is the way to raise gifted kids. What I mean is nobody seems to look into proven ways to "produce" gifted kids. If you google for Polgar, only few things come up, mostly chess related, which isn't the point at all. His
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by Tichy 14y ago
The interesting thing about Polgar is that he announced he would raise gifted kids before he even had them - he didn't even have a wife then, instead he looked for a wife willing to do the experiment. He wasn't obsessed about chess, he just
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by Tichy 14y ago
I've heard about that, even own the book but didn't read very far yet. I remain skeptic. Maybe it holds for "standard parenting techniques", but I am more interested in for example the approach of László Polgár http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by Tichy 14y ago
After a while the travels and parties get old... Besides, if you really wanted to, you could still do all that with kids. It's true that you can't really rationally decide to have a kid, because you can not know beforehand what it is like.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Probably a parody? But anyway, I think a big issue is that a lot of parents seem to think children are something like puppets which they can mend to their liking (and that have to adore them no matter what). Of course such expectations will
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by Tichy 14y ago
I agree that nobody should be told to have kids, but I think nobody should be told not to have kids either (what this article essentially tries to do). Actually I will probably also become one of those obnoxious parents pestering my kid to
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by Tichy 14y ago
Maybe the notion of "total motherhood" is the problem? If those mums wouldn't feel the need to "hover" above their kids every second, perhaps they would be less stressed out? Where I live there is some pressure to give your kid to kindergar
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by Tichy 14y ago
That's ridiculous because you are not responsible for your kid for 30 years. If you don't like them, you can get rid of them sooner. You could also send them to boarding school at a very early age. Just saying.
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by Tichy 14y ago
I've read about an experiment somewhere where they found that doing this lead to Democrats trying to save more energy, but for Republicans it lead to them using more energy. They figured "hey, my neighbors use a lot, so I should be allowed
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by Tichy 14y ago
If it helps, I upvoted your other comment :-) If I had a cafe, I'd love to try the referral thing. There has to be some solution for the future that makes it possible to go to a shop, pick a nice book and sit down with a coffee.
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by Tichy 14y ago
A friend of mine is desperately waiting for a 27'' iMac to become available. You can't order those from Apple yet. So Apple is not necessarily doing it smarter than Google. Probably they simply can project when iPhone 5s will be available a
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by Tichy 14y ago
That might be a possibility, but how much would Google have to pay them for making a phone that outclasses all their other phones in price/performance? Google would have to pay as much as the whole mobile earnings of LG? And destroying the
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by Tichy 14y ago
LG must be making a profit on it, otherwise why would they do it?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Must have seemed like a brilliant plan: where better to hide the papers than in a confetti parade?
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by Tichy 14y ago
The one about the soldiers is almost the most worrying, because it doesn't even make any threats. The one about Obama seems to make a much more detailed threat than the one about "burning the airport", too. Anyway, this can't be resolved in
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by Tichy 14y ago
Almost everyday several articles that have nothing to do with women are voted up a lot on HN. I think that answers your question. You could perhaps ask if there would be a penalty for penis content, but that is a different question.

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