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Ross Levatter's avatar

This is a very interesting post (not unusual for you, of course). But isn't it in some tension with your argument that people should have more kids because it's easier than they believe...that they don't have to be Tiger Moms and devote all waking hours to them?

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static's avatar

Maybe he means have roughly 10x as many? In parenting maybe it's less about being a tiger than putting the child in situations that make them the tiger, imbuing them with the desire and work ethic, not doing it for them.

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Anchorite's avatar

I thought the same thing. This post stresses the importance of increasing your attention and time to a goal to increase odds of success, while his book encourages more of a laissez-faire approach to parenting and claims that the nature vs nurture argument tips in favor of the former.

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