{Work needs stress, children don’t}[31st March 1991]

[Redbook9:19][19910331:1706]{Work needs stress, children don’t}[31st March 1991]

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The conflict between ‘work’ and child[-]rearing is basically the conflict between stress and relaxation. Most modern paid work requires a certain amount of will-power, of exercise of will, and thus of stress,* for its performance. Child-rearing, on the other hand, to be successful requires the rearer to be fairly relaxed.

*[sic – presumably the ‘of’ before ‘stress’ refers back to ‘a certain amount’, not to ‘of exercise’]

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