Interesting Links for 31-01-2020

[andrewducker]

Average Parent Spends Just 5 Hours Face-To-Face With Their Kids Per Week (I wonder how different this is to a few decades ago)

(tags:viaSwampers children parenting )

Sajid Javid abandons pre-election pledge to end austerity - after just 4 months

(tags:austerity Conservatives lies )

Majority of Scots now back independence - but do not want referendum in next two years

(tags:scotland polls independence )

Gorgie City Farm: New owners take over urban farm

(tags:edinburgh farming animals )

Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue

(tags:brain thinking )

Human Compatible - how much should we worry about AI?

(tags:ai thefuture dangerous review books )

Comments

[cmcmck]

I suspect you two spend a lot more!

[andrewducker]

We certainly do at the moment. But I'd naturally expect that to reduce as we go along, as she'll want to spend her time doing her own thing more.

[rmc28]

I spend quite a lot of time each week side-by-side with my children, does that count? (sometimes watching stuff together, sometimes walking to/from school, sometimes going to skating / library / random errands in town together on the bus)

Also I read to them, but not as much as I think I should.

[andrewducker]

I would have thought it did!

[momentsmusicaux]

I think I do both. I have internal monologue most of the time, but sometimes it's just sort of concepts, I think?

[andrewducker]

Yeah, most of mine is conceptual. I certainly don't get an actual voice, or much in words most of the time.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I agree with all of this.

[conuly]

Average Parent Spends Just 5 Hours Face-To-Face With Their Kids Per Week (I wonder how different this is to a few decades ago)

Most studies show that modern parents spend more time with their kids than their own parents did, so.

[andrewducker]

Thank you, that's good to know.

[original_aj]

I remember being horrifyied by small number of minutes per week the average father spent interacting with their children when ours were small. It was less than an hour but I can't remember the exact figur - about 25 minutes I think. But then I also remember how few of the kids classmates routinely ate a meal with their parents - it as usually special occasions only.