By: AlanR - 29th June 2015 at 09:11
As you no doubt realized, my post was (slightly) tongue in cheek.
We didn’t have children by choice, but it must be upsetting for those unable to have children, to
be constantly reminded of the fact. With friends and family telling how well their children are doing.
By: viscount - 29th June 2015 at 08:56
A neat, wry, observation on life, with which I concur; but if taken apart and examined is fundamentally flawed.
First it confuses ‘knowledge’ with ‘intelligence’. Certainly having children increases parents knowledge as they too have to re-learn long forgotten tasks, say long multiplication, over again and expose themselves to situations and places like museums that they would not otherwise revisit. On the other hand (providing I recall my education theory of 40 years ago correctly) I.Q. mathematically inevitably reduces with age, as age is taken into consideration in the computation of test results and producing the IQ score.
I still do like the life observation though!
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June 29, 2015 at 8:22 am