Are Kids The Same And The Times Different?
Are Kids The Same And The Times Different?
Like everything else, kids are more expensive - $286,050 from birth through age 17. That's according to a Fiscal Times report based on the Department of Agriculture's 2009 data for a middle-income, husband-and-wife family with 2 children. The largest percentage of the money 31% - is spent on housing. The next 3 most costly expenditures are childcare and education 17%, food 16% and transportation 13%. The final 3 expenditures are miscellaneous 9%, health care 8% and clothing 6%. One would think a pie chart showing these numbers would be an inexpensive form of birth control.
Many of kids' food preferences come from their mothers. The foods pregnant women eat get into both the amniotic fluid and the breast milk, flavoring them. When babies get old enough to eat solid foods, they show a preference for flavors experienced in the womb or from nursing. However, the amount of salt a mother eats doesn't affect the saltiness of amniotic fluid or breast milk. It's feeding babies starchy table foods high in salt that leads to children having a higher preference for salt. From the beginning it's not what parents say, it's what they do.
Kids who had the greatest self-control as preschoolers were much likelier to have fewer health problems in their 30's. That was the finding of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers also studied 1,000 New Zealanders from birth in 1972 and 1973 until age 32. Children who struggled with self-control as preschoolers were 3 times more likely to have problems as young adults. They were likelier to have a criminal record, be poor or have financial problems and be single parents. The good news is self- control can be taught in "control groups".
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