Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It

Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by prawn on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:08PM (#17234414)

Could well be part of it.

Obviously, we're increasingly aware of the risks (usually without any appreciation of the odds). Previously, you heard through close circles. Now, by the time you're a parent, you've heard of hundreds of ways your child might die through news, movies, etc.

I'm a parent of three, and I actively work to minimise risk amongst my kids where I think it's appropriate, but I'm always conscious of when I'm doing it and try to balance it.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by ethbro on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:42AM (#17237088)

Why we (as a whole) respond that way makes sense from what I know about experimental psych.

If news is optimized for clicks / views, negative stories are more engaging, and the availability heuristic is accurate (aka we assign greater importance to things we can immediately recall), then viewing profit-on-engagement news fundamentally reshapes our opinion of the world.

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