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[cahn]

When D showed me this cartoon it totally made my day. I actually thought it was mildly humorous before reading the caption, possibly because of occasionally feeling like I take the position of benign neglect towards my own kid (well, I mean, not really, but sometimes I feel like that), but when I read the caption, bwhahahaha.



[For those of you who don't hang out with physicists on a regular basis, the thing that all physicists are taught to do, from our first baby classes, is to neglect small terms in our mathematical expressions; and we are even taught to expand everything in small terms so as to better be able to do this. And we all have as our first instinct to do it all the time, even when we haven't done academic physics for years, and even when the terms are maybe honestly not actually all that small.]

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[metaphortunate]

Ha.

I was just talking to another parent on the playground yesterday about how I am fostering independence in my child. Via laziness, i.e. not running around to help him climb on things.

It genuinely seems to be working, viz. he can climb a terrifying collection of things by himself...

[cahn]

Ahahaha. Yes. I am a huge fan of laziness spun as a virtue.

It hasn't worked so much for climbing things (the recent gymnastics class has worked a lot better for that), but it's worked somewhat better for things like her learning how to amuse herself independently... I mean, she still would prefer us to amuse her, but she can (and sometimes will) go off by herself.