According to a new study, not much (if anything).This finding, of course, comes as no surprise to anyone who a) has flown on an airplane with children; b) tried to have dinner out (at a restaurant other than McDonald's or similar) with children; c) gone on a long car trip with children; d) spent more than a few hours with a child; or e) all of the above.
Indeed, what is amazing to me is that anyone would need to conduct a study -- and got funding to do so! -- to figure out that whining (as well as the sound of a baby or child crying and parental baby talk) is highly annoying and distracting. I could have told you that for nothing -- as could any parent or any non-deaf adult who has spent a few hours with a whiny child (or teen).
Btw, the spouse is so going to throw this post in my face. (Whining, it's not just for kids!)
[To read a short summary of the study, click here.]
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For me-it is the poking! Poke poke
Though whining is pretty aweful.
I guess fewer people have seen Celine Dion in concert than I thought.
You want whining? Try my husband, who has tendinitis in his foot. It huuuuurts. (Mind you, I've had equal or worse pain for the past ten years, but one thing I do NOT do is whine!) He actually called me to come downstairs and put a blanket over him that was 6 feet away from his recliner because he was too pathetic to get up!
Yeah, whining is high on my list right now. Adult whining, that is....
I reckon best contraception for teenage girls ever would be to trap them in a car with sticky, grizzly children at the traffic lights in the middle of summer. Throw in a decent tantrum and that should fix it.
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