I haven't gotten very far in the book, but the idea of 10,000 hours to mastery sparked my idea of parenting. DS12 did the math, and we figured if I was doing 'on the job' parenting training 20 hours a day when he was first born, then I hit my first 10,000 hours when he was a year and a quater old. (aproximatly)

We gave DH credit for 20 hours a week, and calculated that DH hit his matery level when DS was 10 year old.

...just when I was starting to suspect that female socalization was better suited to the parenting role, along comes a much better explaination.

I can't wait to share this with my cousin who just finished her first year as an adoptive mom of toddler boys.

Now I'm curious to see if you think that parenting is similar enough to violin playing to make the comparison valid, and how many hours y'all rate yourselves having spent parenting, and how many you assign your significant others.

Wry Smiles,
Grinity

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