Since moving to this area of town, I've gotten to know several
professors at our two local universities and other assorted academic
types. Many of them became parents within a year or two of when we did,
and it's been interesting to watch how these very intelligent people
approach their parenting. It seems to be much the way they approached
their dissertation -- every decision is backed up with tons of research
and is the result of thoughtfully focused inquiry. It's not my way (I'm
very much an emotion-based decisonmaker), but it certainly seems to
work well for them and their kids, and beats the hell out of clueless
apathy.
So this article
in the Chicago Tribune piqued my interest. It looks at "left-brained
parenting" – the tendency of scientist-parents to approach the usual
parenting problems the same way they would a puzzling issue in the lab.
Physicist Dan Sisan, for example, Googled "colic and crying"
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