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When my first son was born, my wife subscribed to a website called something along the lines of "The Net Midwife". A former midwife answered health questions from parents.

All her answers were available online for free but if you wanted her to answer your questions, you would have to pay for the subscription.

Why would you want to pay for something which was freely available to you?

Well as it turns out, even though 99% of the questions parents asked were already answered parent's had this idea that their child was unique and they would ask questions like "my child coughs and it says a little noise everything she inhales right after"

The only group of people more naive and easy to persuade are modern dog people.




It's easy to be persuaded by answering services when you're dealing with what's arguably the thing you will ever be most responsible for.

Plenty of people/businesses take advantage of that.


Yup.

One thing I have never done though is read other peoples advice on how to raise my kids. That's too important to leave to others :)


There is something darkly funny and deeply meta about how this is being down voted.


Yeah, perhaps because people thought I meant I would never use an advice given. What I meant was that I would never buy a book to get advice. Anyway...


The trick is getting people to give advice when you ask for it. Having advice fired at you by every human you meet seems to be a thing. Even wearing headphones doesn’t stop them.


Especially on the subject of child rearing.


> The only group of people more naive and easy to persuade are modern dog people.

That gave me a good laugh, thanks.

Modern dog people are those too sensitive to have lasting relationships or the responsibility of a baby human and therefore their dog is their baby-by-proxy.




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