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nwhikerThere is a stereotype out there that women mutlitask well and that men do not.
The fact that this is the case for my dh does not in any way validate or invalidate that stereotype.
I suspect it's more of a personality issue, with how we are raising and what we are expected to do emphasising differences.
But.
Perry.
Perry reads while he walks when at all possible. We dropped Linnea off at tutoring and picked her up, which meant we walked from the car to the building, up the stairs, down the hallway, into the tutoring rooms, and later back out, twice. Perry read while walking, with me repositionning him as needed, and he did check for cars in the parking lot.
As I propelled him towards the door at tutoring I told Janet that he was reading and walking at the same time.
Perry looked up. "I'm training myself to multitask. That's a skill that will be valuable later."
So there we have it.
The fact that this is the case for my dh does not in any way validate or invalidate that stereotype.
I suspect it's more of a personality issue, with how we are raising and what we are expected to do emphasising differences.
But.
Perry.
Perry reads while he walks when at all possible. We dropped Linnea off at tutoring and picked her up, which meant we walked from the car to the building, up the stairs, down the hallway, into the tutoring rooms, and later back out, twice. Perry read while walking, with me repositionning him as needed, and he did check for cars in the parking lot.
As I propelled him towards the door at tutoring I told Janet that he was reading and walking at the same time.
Perry looked up. "I'm training myself to multitask. That's a skill that will be valuable later."
So there we have it.
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Date: 8 May 2012 15:44 (UTC)no subject
Date: 8 May 2012 16:14 (UTC)I like Perry's approach!
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Date: 9 May 2012 04:47 (UTC)Be careful on sidewalks! :-)
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Date: 8 May 2012 21:59 (UTC)I grew up a few blocks from horror writer Stephen King, and that man walked and read a book everywhere he went: Our apartment was near the pizza parlor he frequented, and he always had his nose in a book as he passed our building. I even saw him walk into the civic center for a basketball tournament while reading. (Before the Internet, he could walk around town relatively unaccosted; he didn't even have a fence around his house until I was a teen, and we used to trick-or-treat there. )
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Date: 9 May 2012 00:41 (UTC)