Why do men have mid-life crises?

[KillerMuffin]

He lost his mind, no really, according to research he did

The correct answer to Number 4 is C.

Answer: Five points for C, rapidly shrinking brains. Sex-difference researcher Ruben Gur has found that men’s brains shrink three times as fast as women’s as they age, up until menopause, when women’s brain-loss accelerates. According to Gur, this sudden decline, occurring especially in the male frontal lobes — which govern attention and inhibition — is one likely explanation for hitherto responsible Dad suddenly buying a red Lexus and leaving Mom for a babe in accounting. You see? He really did lose his mind.

It's a quiz link:

http://underwire.msn.com/underwire/social/quiz/97quiz.asp

Sorry, I just had to share. I got no points for this, I stood up for you guys. I really did. I figured it was Baywatch. I looked up Ruben Gur, he is really a nueropschopathologist researcher, along with his wife. He recent published something about how men and women's brains react to getting lost. Other than her saying, pull over lets ask directions, and him saying, no, I got it babe.

 

[WriterDom]

the average 14-year-old American kid in 1950 had a vocabulary of 25,000 words. How many does the average 14-year-old have today?


10,000? wow, that's scary

 

[CreamyLady]

I suspect that's because the average 14-year-old kid has better things to do than read, write and engage in intelligent discourse.

"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, writing an exact man." -- Bacon

 

[KillerMuffin]

My 13 year old twin nieces summed it up perfectly. We gave them each a good book for christmas. Okay, it's a crappy book, but it doesn't have pictures. Sweet Valley High *shudder.* They said, in unison, "Thanks Aunt Muffy, but when does it come out on video?"

 

[CreamyLady]

(groan)

I was reading to WitchsKat from the time she was a zygote. It definitely paid off; she was always reading as a kid, and never regarded an afternoon with a book as dire punishment.

I want to smack those parents who threaten their kids with an afternoon's reading as a punishment. What are they thinking?!

 

[Juliangel]

the average 14-year-old American kid in 1950 had a vocabulary of 25,000 words. How many does the average 14-year-old have today?

That is why after a good start with Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow I stopped letting my children watch TV.

They are allowed to watch baseball but that is it. They read a lot and play computer games, the Jump Start Series is great.

My boys are both at the top of their classes and in the gifted program. They do not miss TV and have probably read more books than all their cousins combined.

 

[Guest]

Call me different

 

[CW]

the average 14-year-old American kid in 1950 had a vocabulary of 25,000 words. How many does the average 14-year-old have today?


10,000? wow, that's scary

And of those 10,000,,, I firmly believe that only 1,000 are used,,, perhaps even less,,, in their speaking.

 

[GuyJD]

YIKES

That test must have derived from a woman.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Re: Call me different

I want the red Lexus for mom...just let me take the babe in accounting around the block once or twice. And I did NOT lose my mind it's right where I left tit.

That so had to be deliberate indy, just one question... whose?

 

[Closet Desire]

Mid life crisis or cure?

I had to think a while about this one because...it happened to me! Married twenty years, a child, a business, a big house, two cars, a boat, a camper...all the trappings. Then I fell in love with my best friend, even though she lived in another country. Same thing happened to her.

I think I reached a point where I felt I wasn't achieving what I wanted and, clearly, never was. It made me stop and examine my life. It took a lot of guts to say "whoa...stop the train...I wanna get off!"

When CD-able and I started to talk and share our disappointments and goals we both got a taste of what real happiness is all about. There was no way I was going to let it slip away. Now, many years later, I realise that even though it caused chaos for many people, including our children, all but one ended up winners (CD-able's ex...who is an abusive prat).

Well...there's one man's story!