On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>> Parents spend just three minutes a day talking to their kids.
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> Unbelievable. I could never talk to my nine year old again and beat
> this average over a lifetime. Where did you get this info?
I'm spinning that a bit - it's talking to kids as an exclusive activity, not including while washing the dishes or something. But still, Ivan's two and I talk to him a lot more than that every day!
It's from the BLS's time use surveys: <http://www.bls.gov/tus/>.
Doug