Iranian feminist to American feminists: You aren't helping.

"How To Get Your Kids To Do Chores (Without Resenting It)"

Apparently, Mexican parents are a lot better at this than American parents.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/09/616928895/how-to-get-your-kids-to-do-chores-without-resenting-it

Quote:

..."For example, one mom told us: 'When my toddler was doing the dishes, at the beginning, the water was all over the place, but I would allow my son to the dishes because that's how he learned,' " she says.

The moms see it as an investment, Mejia-Arauz says: Encourage the messy, incompetent toddler who really wants to do the dishes now, and over time, he'll turn into the competent 7-year-old who still wants to help.

Research supports this hypothesis, says the University of New Hampshire's Andrew Coppens. "Early opportunities to collaborate with parents likely sets off a developmental trajectory that leads to children voluntarily helping and pitching in at home," he says.

Or another way to look at it is: If you tell a child enough times, "No, you're not involved in this chore," eventually they will believe you...

(snip)

Excellent timeline of Anthony Bourdain's death -

https://twitter.com/AanelVictoria/status/1007611201684058112

Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos fame has been charged with wire fraud.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1072521/download

This New York Times article documents a large reading gap favoring girls and a small math gap that sometimes favors boys. Guess which gap is presented as a big problem?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/13/upshot/boys-girls-math-reading-tests.html

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy

https://twitter.com/oneraindrop/status/1007446849756819456

Hart County grandmother kills rabid bobcat with bare hand -

http://www.onlineathens.com/news/20180615/hart-county-grandmother-kills-rabid-bobcat-with-bare-hands

Border walls are bad unless the right kind of people build them.

https://twitter.com/CatlinNyaa/status/1007603403244101632

Uncaged child smashes sculpture, mom shocked to receive a bill for the damage.

$132,000

Gog, I saw that on the news.

It's true that we (thankfully!) don't hear museum stories like that more than a couple of times a year, and the likely reason is that parents who truly care about art either leave small kids at home or keep an eagle eye on them and tell them there will be serious punishments for kids who ignore parents' rules. I thought it was telling that the mother didn't make it clear just how she got "distracted" from watching her five-year-old - AND had the gall to say "this can happen to any family."

Trouble is, it's also true that museums can be incredibly thoughtless about how they display some works. (One newscaster said, in effect: "Would you put out a diamond necklace and not expect people to handle it?"): Take this, which I mentioned last July (it was a domino-effect accident):

"California woman's 'selfie fail' destroys $200,000 worth of art"

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-womans-selfie-fail-destroys-dollar200000-worth-of-art/ar-BBEpsTP?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=mailsignout

Somehow, I find it hard to believe the museum authorities couldn't have seen that coming. (Assuming it wasn't a stunt, as some suspect.)

It reminds me of those Ming vases that got destroyed at the British Museum in Jan. (?) 2006. (Incredibly, they were put back together.) But why did it have to happen in the first place? Here's what I mean. From the Guardian:

"...(The man) said disaster struck after he realised he had gone up the wrong staircase and swung around to come down. He trod on his untied shoelace and fell forward. 'I was trying to grab hold of something but the walls were smooth marble and I couldn't stop myself,' he told the Mail on Sunday.

"An instant later, Mr Flynn's 6ft, 13st frame was hurtling towards the first of the vases, all of which were displayed on a windowsill..."

I mean, if they were on a windowsill, he clearly didn't hit them by rolling on the floor after falling. So they would have to be PRETTY close to the staircase to begin with, right? How stupid could the officials have been? Anyone can fall by accident.

And from YouTube:

Danny C.
20 hours ago
lol she's offended... she's lucky her kid didn't die. Where the hell was she.

VG Dubrovin
19 hours ago
You know if her kid died, she would probably sue that place. Yep, that's the world we live in.