My Kid is a Damn Nutter

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Science demands an even more critical view of the child than the mother's view. It will only include unbiased, double-blind, direct observations

[gathered during a single one-hour snapshot of the kid's life]

and will throw out intuition, emotion and previously-held beliefs

[established through hours and hours and hours of direct observation gathered day after day, year after year, 24/7/365 by someone who is absolutely obsessed with finding the answer to that burning question that drives them on past sleep, past any concerns of themself and their own needs, that person who isn't concerned about grant money, or finding an academic bit of trivia, but who actually needs a real-world solution that will actually WORK and produce visible results]

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But, yeah, sure. Mothers don't know what's going on with their own kids. They're probably just "hysterical" ...