Reem Raouda studied 200 kids and cracked the code. Children enjoy talking to parents who do seven specific things. The research is groundbreaking if you ignore every functional family that existed before someone wrote it down and charged $29.99 for the PDF.
The study spans childhood through adulthood. So we're counting toddlers who can't form sentences and 30-year-olds still on their parents' phone plan as equivalent data points. Rigorous stuff. This is the same methodology hedge funds use when they count unrealized gains as performance and then blow up six months later.
Seven things. Not six. Not eight. Exactly seven habits separate parents whose kids call them from parents whose kids let it go to voicemail every Thanksgiving. The specificity is confident. I respect that. It's like when a day trader tells you he's developed a system with an 83.7% win rate and you check his account three weeks later and he's selling plasma.
Here's what kills me. Two hundred kids is the sample size that convinced someone this was worth publishing. You know what else has a sample size of 200? The number of times I've watched retail traders discover options trading and immediately lose everything on weekly calls because some guy with 147 Twitter followers said NVDA was going to the moon.
The expert shares habits that help kids feel comfortable. As opposed to uncomfortable, which is apparently how most children experience their parents. Fair enough. Most parents can't read a chart and most kids can't stand them. At least the kids have an excuse.
Childhood through adulthood is a hell of a range to study unless you're just confirming that not being a piece of shit works at every age.
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