Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> From Doug's review:
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> >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?
Well, in a couple years your if-clause may be a reality. The assumption of reactions to this seems to be that such conversation is at the parent's initiative -- which is true for the first few years. My guess would be that parents spend far more time talking to children age 0-4 than they do to children age 4-13, and that thereafter the conversation drops through a black hole, because it now depends wholly on the child, who isn't interested.
Carrol