Here's an excerpt from today's Daily Groove by Scott Noelle.
It's like that famous experiment where they tossed a healthy frog in boiling water and it leaped right out. But if they put the frog in cool water and raised the temperature gradually over several days, the frog would be able to *adjust* and stay in the water.
The slow boil seems more humane, but that "well-adjusted" frog eventually *died* from the heat! Whereas the non-adjusted frog's intact sensitivity protected it from being boiled.
Copyright (c) 2008 Scott Noelle. Used by permission.
(Hint: Your kid is the frog if you try to toughen him or her up! Beware of what works.)
Read the whole post here.
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