On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 15:02, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > > I posit that doing anything requiring hours of deliberate, thoughtful, > delcate effort every day (7-days a week, etc.) rewires your brain. Be > it child rearing or solving cross word puzzles or repairing antique > mechanical watches. Of course, child rearing has the advantage of
LOL, the task comparison (child rearing vs.thoughtful/delicate work ) struck me as odd....I crochet - a delicate and thoughtful task where I make a lot of mistakes but I dont think its in the same league as child-rearing. One could err whilst solving a puzzle or repairing watches --worst case scenario: the inanimate object does not protest and you just lost an expensive watch or have to buy another newspaper to solve the same puzzle again BUT a kid on the other hand .... try erring with food food in the wind pipe or something equally simple sounding task, will have some reaction from the kid (including those that have yet to learn to speak). -- .
