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Folksonomies: parenting child rearing Memes
02 JUN 2011
Is Science a Career Choice to Push on Children?
They say it's narcissistic to push your kids to follow in your footsteps, but when they say that, they must be talking about other people. After all, my footsteps, often covered with disposable clean-room booties, lead to science, which is a responsibly nerdy career choice. Or is it? Credit: Hal Mayforth Nerdy, yes -- but how responsible is it to encourage a child to study arduously for decades to compete for a slot in an inadequate job market? The same parents who beam at their child's rep...The field is over-saturated, low-paying, and extremely hard work. Is it right to push children into working in science?
02 JUN 2011
Funny Things Scientists Parents Can Say to Their Kids
I don't know how other prospective fathers treat their wives' pregnancies, but I saw it as a science project. It had a protocol, parameters, a timeline, and even the one item that makes funding agencies happy: a deliverable. I found myself poking at my wife's abdomen, asking, "Who's Daddy's little gestating blastocyst? Who's recapitulating phylogeny?" [...] Photo by Dan Koestler Email Article Email Editor Discuss in Forum Related Articles Print this page Free Newsletter Advanced Article S...Folksonomies: child rearing humor
Folksonomies: child rearing humor
A good list of quotes, but kids probably won't get them.