I was walking around work today, attempting to avoid doing the very thing I am supposed to be doing, working of course. I happened to notice one of those two tier buggies that are popular for people with twins. The style where one child is above the other, it started me thinking about how do you choose which child goes on the top and which the bottom.
Is it based on which child behaves the most? Surely that would be a negative re-enforcement for the one on the bottom, they are ignored and therefor misbehave more.
Or is it based on health?
That choice could go either way. The sickly child on top means that surely they are rewarding the child for being ill, and the healthier child is placed on the bottom, creating a mind set for later in life that it is a negative to be healthy.
Or would it be a more ancient Greek choice of reward those that are healthy and ignore those that are not, which, to be honest, it rather frowned upon in our society.
Hmm, rather an unusual blog to make after not posting in a while, but then, this is somewhere for my unusual thoughts and venting.
