http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/fashion/25love.html?ex=1152936000&en=0bdf84329331b17e&ei=5087%0A
Just a sample
You can't expect a baboon to learn to flip on command in one session, just as
you can't expect an American husband to begin regularly picking up his dirty
socks by praising him once for picking up a single sock. With the baboon you
first reward a hop, then a bigger hop, then an even bigger hop. With Scott the
husband, I began to praise every small act every time: if he drove just a mile
an hour slower, tossed one pair of shorts into the hamper, or was on time for
anything.
I have been noticing this article on the most emailed list of the New York Times for quite a while now. Decided to go read it during my break time. Couldn't help but smile at a lot of the observations.
2 comments:
Shucks!! i should have read it first and used it on you!! :))))
You know, male-female aside, the sad part is that not only do people treat othes human beings as animals, they are treating their spouses such. Plus thinking that manipulating a spouse that way is supposed to be cool, and teaching others to do it, too, by way of writing an article like that.
Or is that just the viewpoint of a yet-unmarried person?
Sheesh.
-Babboo
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