Assume a Spherical Cow: Assume a Spherical Cow?
Assume a Spherical Cow?
Right now someone (perhaps even you) is staring up at that cute little round cow my daughter drew and thinking: "Was this title created by a random word generator?" No, but good guess.
Assume a spherical cow!
That's the punch line.
You're supposed to laugh now.
Really.
Get it?
Ok, fine. The physicist created an idealized, overly simplified version of reality in order to solve a complex problem, but in doing so, made it impossible to solve the problem.
Oh, come on.
As for the rest of you, trust me. Nerds love this stuff. If you ever have to do standup at a convention for theoretical physicists, you'll thank me for this one.
But now you may be wondering, "What does this have to do with parenting?" Well, everything. Isn't assuming a perfect world, with perfect conditions, and perfectly uniform children, who will all respond in perfectly predictable ways to any given parenting technique, what people -- from your mother-in-law to your pediatrician to your some random stranger at the park to a host of so-called "experts" -- so often do when they give you advice? But the world isn't perfect. And neither children nor cows fit neatly into a theoretical framework. Instead, we parents -- we humans -- have to struggle with the messy, imperfect reality. But fortunately, that makes for better stories to share too. And that is what I hope this little corner of the Internet will be all about.
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I'm an imperfect mom, an imperfect wife, an imperfect person, and I eat cookies for breakfast.
Assume a Spherical Cow?
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