Kids Make You Smarter

August 23, 2006 by Matthew Lickona at 7:42 pm

They teach you focus. This from my eight-month-old: “See, Dad, you’re trying to keep me from crawling toward the computer and swatting at the keyboard as you sit here on the floor, ostensibly minding me. BUT, you’re also trying to read something on that computer, and manipulate that keyboard. You lack focus. I, on the other hand, have but a single goal. And I’ve got nothing else to do today.”

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