Want to trigger a tantrum in a toddler? Here are the magic words: "In a minute." One minute, as a proportion of a child’s life, is so much longer than that of an adult. A minute, to a toddler lasts forever because of how their brain perceives time. Conversely, as you grow older, time seems …
Tag: Time
Solving Life’s Problems with Scope
My sister often complains about how complex her life has become, how much she has to do. She’s a mother of two teenagers; neither of the teens drive, which also makes her a driver; she’s a full-time professional with a position of responsibility; she is the wife of a husband who also works and attends …
The Artificial Construct of Time
I have written before about how I used to be chronically late until, one day, I disappointed someone whose opinion about me was important to me. Then I made up my mind to be on time and I worked at it and worked, until I am now someone who is usually on time. That I …
Unsubscribes
I have been trying to winnow down the number of eNewsletters and commercial email that I receive. Not the SPAM so much – that just goes right to the SPAM folder anyway – but the emails from online stores where I bought something once and, most importantly, the email from coaches and organizations where I …
Living on Cat Time
I have this theory that cats only count to three. Knowing cats, they could probably choose to count higher than three but have, for whatever inscrutable cat reasons, decided that three is how high they will count. After three, numbers lose meaning for cats. One. Two. Three. Forever. When you go out of town for …