Also: what’s so great about friendship?
If you're not a tiger parent, what animal parent are you?
Maybe a mongoose or something?
How about a rabbit?
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Steven Dubner, and you're listening to.
No stupid questions today on the show.
Do bratty kids become bratty adults?
When I was growing up, if anybody asked me who are the popular kids, I would say, well, Meredith is popular.
And which prison is she in today?
Also, what makes a good friendship?
We remember the same commercial for aluminum siding.
Angela, I have a question here from a listener.
Would you entertain that?
Of course.
This is a listener named Sydney, and she writes to say it's an ongoing debate I have with my husband.
We don't have kids, but do kids make adults?
She continues, I don't like to be around bratty kids, but is there any research that brats actually make worse adults, or does society mold them into likable humans?
So, Angela, I find Sydney's question compelling, not just on the specifics of whether, quote, kids become, quote, adults, whatever that might mean, but really the bigger question of how much of our adult selves was evident and perhaps foreordained by our child selves.
I think it's a great question, and it is one of the big questions in all of social science.
How much is our future life either predicted by or determined by who we are earlier?