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Fish · 07-14-2009, 12:00 PM

If you want to decide whether Parenting or Childrearing is Easy, Average, Hard, or whatever, work backward.

Most people learn it as they go. How many hours of self-study does it take to get proficient at it? How many hours per day does one practice it?* After years of raising children, how good at it does the average person become? Do the math and work it out.

How often do you do roll against Parenting? Daily? Hourly? Weekly?

*Note: I'm not saying "how many hours a day are you a parent," because the answer is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Obviously, you aren't actually using your parenting skills for all 24 hours: part of the time you are working, sleeping, shopping, cleaning, and whatnot. If everybody got 24 hours of credit for "Parenting self-study" every day, then every parent could put 21 character points per year into it (if they had 21 points to spend, of course). By the time the kid is 18, the parents could spend 394 points in Parenting. Frankly, most people just aren't that good at it.

07-14-2009, 12:00 PM	#29
Fish Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Should there be a 'parenting' skill? If you want to decide whether Parenting or Childrearing is Easy, Average, Hard, or whatever, work backward. Most people learn it as they go. How many hours of self-study does it take to get proficient at it? How many hours per day does one practice it?* After years of raising children, how good at it does the average person become? Do the math and work it out. How often do you do roll against Parenting? Daily? Hourly? Weekly? Note: I'm not saying "how many hours a day are you a parent," because the answer is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Obviously, you aren't actually using your parenting skills for all 24 hours: part of the time you are working, sleeping, shopping, cleaning, and whatnot. If everybody got 24 hours of credit for "Parenting self-study" every day, then every parent could put 21 character points per year* into it (if they had 21 points to spend, of course). By the time the kid is 18, the parents could spend 394 points in Parenting. Frankly, most people just aren't that good at it.