As other commenters have pointed out, that 5% figure seems like it could be adequately explained by modern developed-world kids having close to 95% of their time locked up in school, ‘extracurricular activities,’ or sleep, none of which involve parental interaction.
5% of non-sleep time is 48 minutes a day. Do you think that’s a good estimate of the amount of time children spend around their parents? It also seems likely that parents would have a disproportionately large impact compared to their share of the time- among other things, their personalities will be mostly constant whereas a rapidly changing set of peers or teachers would have a wide range of personalities.
(About 50% is heredity, and so if we assume all of the rest is effects by other people, we could go up to 10%- 96 minutes- but I think the best explanation is low variation among parenting styles masking the impact that parenting style has on children. That doesn’t have to mean there’s much room for benefit above a mediocre style, that there’s room for detriment below mediocre would be enough).
As other commenters have pointed out, that 5% figure seems like it could be adequately explained by modern developed-world kids having close to 95% of their time locked up in school, ‘extracurricular activities,’ or sleep, none of which involve parental interaction.
5% of non-sleep time is 48 minutes a day. Do you think that’s a good estimate of the amount of time children spend around their parents? It also seems likely that parents would have a disproportionately large impact compared to their share of the time- among other things, their personalities will be mostly constant whereas a rapidly changing set of peers or teachers would have a wide range of personalities.
(About 50% is heredity, and so if we assume all of the rest is effects by other people, we could go up to 10%- 96 minutes- but I think the best explanation is low variation among parenting styles masking the impact that parenting style has on children. That doesn’t have to mean there’s much room for benefit above a mediocre style, that there’s room for detriment below mediocre would be enough).
Low variation among parenting styles is a better way to phrase what I meant by extracurriculars.