Who produces better kids?

Parents who are educated or parents who have only completed h.s.? It can be argued that both can raise well-mannered kids, because it’s not the education exposure but the character of the parents. Yet, it could also be argued that parents who are college grads raise kids who are more inclined to be able to interact positively with a various group of people/personalities.

What do you think?

I think it is more dependent on how good looking the parents are.

I’d say that there are good parents and there are bad parents, and that money or education have little to do with it.

Depends how you determine “better kids.”

Now if you were thinking along the lines of attracting good prices in Sichuan’s thriving illegal trade in babies, then unsurprisingly ac-dropkick is right.

HG

Not the question I was hoping for. sigh

Looking only at my own extended family, some more educated parents screw up by reading too many books and turning their kids into failed social experiments who are either quiet and serious, but unable to interact with others, or loud, crude, and unable to properly interact with anyone. Some ill-educated parents act ignorantly towards their kids, and screw them up by consistently putting them down.

I’d prefer to keep company with the children of people who demonstrate common sense, patience, and discipline, whatever their education.

Who produces better kids? Parents who have well-trained dogs. (I’m only half-joking.)

My parent’s didn’t have a high school diploma between them, and look how I turned out! Hnng-Hnng! Snort!

It doesn’t matter how good your kids are, foreigners will just produce cheap knock-offs and flood the market. There should be a War Against Kids. Or something.

Absolutely - it happened in China! My product, a Canadian-Taiwanese joint venture, is still in its infancy, but we’re hoping to develop the product over time. More money is needed, and a lot more research. Our budget, while healthy, has limits, and our human resources are currently stretched to the limit.

Absolutely - it happened in China! My product, a Canadian-Taiwanese joint venture, is still in its infancy, but we’re hoping to develop the product over time. More money is needed, and a lot more research. Our budget, while healthy, has limits, and our human resources are currently stretched to the limit.[/quote]

And then, don’t forget, one day your JV will undergo short bursts of organic growth, some depressions and inflation, and then before you can blink, the JV will be merged or acquired by either a domestic or foreign corporation, hopefully one with good assets and no liabilities and bad debts. But after that, your ROI may be improve. Personally, I would keep such JVs closely held. You never know what can happen with IPOs these days.

Absolutely - it happened in China! My product, a Canadian-Taiwanese joint venture, is still in its infancy, but we’re hoping to develop the product over time. More money is needed, and a lot more research. Our budget, while healthy, has limits, and our human resources are currently stretched to the limit.[/quote]
And then, don’t forget, one day your JV will undergo short bursts of organic growth, some depressions and inflation, and then before you can blink, the JV will be merged or acquired by either a domestic or foreign corporation, hopefully one with good assets and no liabilities and bad debts. [/quote]
My partner has stipulated that mergers of our JV project with local interests will not even be considered! :astonished: :laughing:

Exxxxcellent :laughing:

Absolutely - it happened in China! My product, a Canadian-Taiwanese joint venture, is still in its infancy, but we’re hoping to develop the product over time. More money is needed, and a lot more research. Our budget, while healthy, has limits, and our human resources are currently stretched to the limit.[/quote]
And then, don’t forget, one day your JV will undergo short bursts of organic growth, some depressions and inflation, and then before you can blink, the JV will be merged or acquired by either a domestic or foreign corporation, hopefully one with good assets and no liabilities and bad debts. [/quote]
My partner has stipulated that mergers of our JV project with local interests will not even be considered! :astonished: :laughing:[/quote]

Is your JV F or M ? F type are universally saleable, while M type are typically restricted to Asian markets by

A. market demand in Asia for M products of Eurasian JV (which actually is true of F as well)
B. lack of similar demand for said products in foreign markets (but not for F types)

EDIT: I might add that I myself am a M type of a similar JV. And my mother always HATED me dating Asian girls. I guess because she herself liked Euros , she was determined that I should have euro girlfriends only. Well I ONLY had Asian girlfriends for two reasons. One, only asian girls liked me and being in Taiwan there were tons of em. Which suited me just fine !! :smiley:

Again, another thread highjacked. :fume:

Good point, but what determines common sense? Patience? or Discipline? I’ve encountered kids from wealth educated backgrounds who lack all three or have such an sense of entitlement that it can spoil any developement for patience.

On the other hand, I’ve been around “low-income” children and they find themselves creating trouble just to feel comfortable. Even though, they have common sense.

Good parents IMHO try and explain the world to their kids and their places in it, not just try and shuffle and push them through their childhood along the path of least resistance.

Those with switches and feather dusters, according to an ancient Chinese secret

/sarcasm

But seriously, I read a very cool story about Richard Branson who said that his parents urged him on at a very early age to go out and do things.

  1. When he couldn’t swim, his aunt and family went to a pond where they stayed until he swam or something

  2. At around 10yo (paraphrase), his dad dropped off his sister and him somewhere with only a compass. (this I suppose was safe back then in England)

I think self-sufficiency, a cool head, and self-discipline are very valuable things to teach kids. I think the hardest thing to do is when a parent should intervene and help and when a parent should step back and let the kid learn by trial and error.

Fa Lun Gong make great tasting babies, something to do with the zero gravity when they meditate.

HG

I always thought that better kids came from superior goats.

maybe that’s Butter kids.

or whatever.